How does feminism shake up political science, the study of politics and electoral politics? What difference do feminist political scientists and politicians make to political institutions, policy processes and outcomes? The scholarship and activism of pioneering feminist political scientist Professor Joni Lovenduski helped establish these questions on the political science agenda.
This book addresses key themes in Lovenduski’s seminal work. State-of-the-art chapters by leading scholars cover gender and parties; elected institutions and the state; quotas and recruitment; public opinion and women’s interests. Vignettes by prominent politicians and practitioners, including Dame Anne Begg MP, Baroness Gould, Deborah Mattinson, and the Rt Hon Theresa May, bring the academic analysis to life.
Deeds and Words reveals the impact of feminist interventions on politics in the round. Its groundbreaking assessment of feminist scholarship and politics offers an appraisal of, and fitting tribute to, Lovenduski’s own contribution to gender studies and feminist politics.
Deeds and Words shows how feminist scholarship has exposed the gender underpinnings of electoral and political institutions – and how it has helped change political science, and politics itself. This well-conceived volume does full justice to the work of renowned scholar Joni Lovenduski, a pioneer in studying women and politics, whose career has been devoted to understanding and promoting the issues and reforms these essays examine. -- Susan J Carroll, Rutgers University
This fine book traces the evolution of gendered analyses of politics, captures the latest advances in the field, and links the expanding research agenda to the continuing challenges of gendering political life. It is a major contribution. -- Anne Phillips, London School of Economics and Political Science
For this volume, top-notch scholars and leading practitioners reflect carefully on feminist scholarship in politics and political science, in recognition of Professor Joni Lovenduski, whose seminal work laid the foundations for comparative gender politics. A book that will stay within quick reach on my bookshelf. -- Miki Caul Kittilson, Arizona State University
This book is tangible evidence of Joni Lovenduski’s powerful impact on the development of gender and politics scholarship. Deeds and Words is not only a heartwarming testament to an outstanding scholar who proved that scientific excellence and social engagement go hand in hand; it will also prove an enduring reference for the topics and issues it addresses. -- Petra Meier, University of Antwerp
This volume is an impressive tribute to the significance and influence of the scholarship and feminist politics of Professor Joni Lovenduski. It also demonstrates how far feminist political science has come theoretically and empirically within the UK, and globally, under Lovenduski's scrupulous and generous guidance. Edited by two of Lovenduski’s protégées, this work brings together a range of experts, from the academy and the real world of politics, each of whom traverses the intellectual development and practical implications of the subfield’s strands across time and space. The chapters reveal a diverse, compelling and growing body of feminist scholarship that has continuously challenged traditional disciplinary concepts (power, the state, representation), the nature of institutions and interests, and methodological choice, demanding these incorporate a consideration of gender and feminism in all their complexity. The result is a rich and valuable tapestry of what has come to constitute feminist political science, and reflecting Lovenduski’s foundational contribution. Deeds and Words represents an important source of what now must constitute a core subfield of political science. -- Jennifer Curtin, University of Auckland
Rosie Campbell is lecturer in research methods at the School of Politics and Sociology, Birkbeck College, University of London. She researches gender and representation, participation and voting behaviour. She is currently involved in the British Representation Study 2005, a study of the backgrounds, attitudes and experiences of MPs and candidates.
Previous publications include Gender, Ideology and Issue Preference: Is there such a Thing as a Political Women's interest in Britain? BJPIR 6:20-46,Winning Women's Votes? The Incremental Track to Equality with Joni Lovenduski in Parliamentary Affairs, October 2005 and the electoral commission report Gender and Political Participation with Pippa Norris and Joni Lovenduski, published in 2004.
Sarah Childs is Professor of Politics at the University of Bristol, and Director of the UoB’s SPAIS Gender Research Centre. She has published widely on gender, representation, political parties and the UK Parliament. Her latest book, Sex, Gender and the Conservative Party: From Iron Lady to Kitten Heels, with Paul Webb, was published in 2012.
Peter Allen is a Lecturer in British Politics at Queen Mary, University of London. His research focuses on political behaviour and representation, and he has published work in journals including Political Studies, Parliamentary Affairs and The Political Quarterly.
Faith Armitage is a Research Associate on the ERC-funded programme Understanding Institutional Change: A Gender Perspective, at Manchester University. Faith uses the expenses and debating regimes in the parliaments of the United Kingdom and South Africa to explore these concepts. This work builds on previous research that Faith has conducted on ceremony and ritual in parliaments.
Drude Dahlerup graduated from the University of Aarhus in Denmark, and is currently Professor of Political Science at the University of Stockholm. She has written extensively on gender and politics, the history of women’s movements, and gender equality policies. She has worked as a consultant for international organisations to Sierra Leone, Cambodia, Tunisia, Kosovo, China, Egypt, and Bhutan, on how to empower women in politics, on quota systems and electoral systems. Among her recent publications are Women, Quotas and Politics (ed. Routledge 2006), and Breaking Male Dominance in Old Democracies (with Monique Leyenaar, Oxford University Press 2013). Drude Dahlerup is one of the 20 members of the UN Global Civil Society Advisory Group to the executive director of UN Women.
Ana Espírito-Santo (PhD, European University Institute, 2011) is an invited assistant professor at ISCTE-IUL (Lisbon University Institute), Department of Political Science & Public Policies. Her main current research interests are gender and politics, and comparative politics. She is the co-author of several book chapters and an article in West European Politics (2012).
Yvonne Galligan is Professor of Comparative Politics at Queen’s University Belfast where she is also the founding Director of the Centre for Advancement of Women in Politics. Among her publications are States of Democracy: Gender and Politics in the European Union (ed. Routledge 2015), Politics and Gender in Ireland (ed. with Fiona Buckley, Taylor and Francis 2014), Gender Politics and Democracy in Post-Socialist Europe (with Sara Clavero and Marina Calloni, Barbara Budrich 2007), and Sharing Power: Women, Parliament, Democracy (ed. with Manon Tremblay, Ashgate, 2006).
Meryl Kenny is is Lecturer in Government and Politics in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Leicester. Her research focuses on gender and political recruitment, and feminist institutionalism. Recent publications include Gender and Political Recruitment: Theorizing Institutional Change (Palgrave, 2013).
Mona Lena Krook is Associate Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University. Her first book, Quotas for Women in Politics: Gender and Candidate Selection Reform Worldwide (Oxford University Press, 2009), received the American Political Science Association Victoria Schuck Award for the Best Book on Women and Politics in 2010. She is also co-editor of The Impact of Gender Quotas (Oxford University Press, 2012), exploring the impact of quotas beyond numbers in Western Europe, Latin America, Asia/the Middle East, and Sub-Saharan Africa.
Fiona Mackay is Professor of Politics and Dean of the School of Social and Political Science at the University of Edinburgh. Her research interests include women’s political representation, and gender and institutions. She founded and co-directs FIIN: Feminism and Institutionalism International Network (www.femfiin.com). Her most recent book is Gender, Politics and Institutions: Towards a Feminist Institutionalism (co-edited with Mona Lena Krook, Palgrave Macmillan, 2011).
Rosa Malley completed her doctorate at the University of Bristol as part of the Gendered Ceremony and Ritual in Parliaments research project. Her thesis looked at parliamentary culture at Westminster and the Scottish Parliament, and the substantive representation of women.
Amy G Mazur is Professor of Political Science at Washington State University and an Associate Researcher at Sciences Po, Paris. Her recent books include Politics, Gender and Concepts (edited with Gary Goertz, Cambridge University Press, 2008); and The Politics of State Feminism: Innovation in Comparative Research (with Dorothy McBride, Temple University Press, 2010). She is currently co convener (with Joni Lovenduski) of the Gender Equality Policy in Practice Project.
Dorothy E McBride is professor emerita of political science at Florida Atlantic University. With Amy Mazur, she was co-director of the Research Network on Gender, Politics and the State (RNGS) and co-author of The Politics of State Feminism: Innovation in Comparative Research (Temple University Press, 2010). She is co-author with Janine Parry of the forthcoming Women’s Rights in the USA: Policy Conflicts and Gender Roles 5th Ed.
Rainbow Murray is Reader (Associate Professor) in Politics at Queen Mary University of London. Her research on gender, politics and representation has been published in journals such as the American Political Science Review, Political Research Quarterly, European Journal of Political Research and Politics & Gender. She is the author of Parties, Gender Quotas and Candidate Selection in France (Palgrave, 2010) and the editor of Cracking the Highest Glass Ceiling: A Global Comparison of Women’s Campaigns for Executive Office (Praeger, 2010).
Pippa Norris is a comparative political scientist who has taught at Harvard University for a quarter of a century. Her research compares public opinion and elections, democratic institutions and cultures, gender politics, and political communications in many countries worldwide. Major honours include APSA’s Charles Merriam Award, fellowship of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the PSA’s Isaiah Berlin Lifetime Achievement Award, IPSA’s Karl Deutsch Award, the 2011 Johan Skytte prize in political science, and the ARC’s 2011 Kathleen Fitzpatrick Australian Laureate Fellowship. She has published around fifty books. The most recent include Cultural Backlash: Trump, Brexit and Authoritarian Populism (authored with Inglehart, 2019) and Electoral Integrity in America (coedited, 2019).
Joyce Outshoorn is is Professor Emerita of Women’s Studies at the University of Leiden, where she is affiliated to the Institute of Political Science. She is editor of The Politics of Prostitution (2004), Changing State Feminism (2007) (with Johanna Kantola), and the forthcoming European Women’s Movements and Body Politics. Her work has been published in Public Administration Review, Social Politics, Acta Politica, Journal of Comparative Public Policy, European Journal of Women’s Studies and Sexual Research and Social Policy. She was co-convenor of the Research Network on Gender, Politics and the State (RNGS) and one of the project leaders of the Feminism and Citizenship (FEMCIT) project. Her research interests are women’s movements, women’s equality policy, and body politics, notably abortion and prostitution.
Vicky Randall is Professor Emerita of Government at the University of Essex. She has published widely on gender-related issues in politics, with books including Women and Politics, Women in Contemporary British Politics (with Joni Lovenduski) and The Politics of Child Daycare in Britain. Her current research focuses on older people’s political participation but with a continuing interest in relevant gender differences.
Jennifer Rubin is vice president of RAND Europe and director of its Communities, Safety & Justice research programme. While at RAND, Rubin has led research with and for a range of EU, British, and wider European institutions, agencies, departments, and foundations. In addition to leading research, Rubin has served as social scientific advisor to projects funded by European foundations; has been invited to contribute to Dutch, British, and US home affairs policy papers; and has contributed to TEDx events, consultations, and roundtables in the UK, US, and EU.
