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Gender, Institutions and Change: Feminist Institutionalism after 10 years
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International Conference, University of Manchester
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3 -4 April 2017
Conference Programme (subject to change)
Monday 3rd April
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10.15 -11.00: Coffee and Registration
Foyer, Samuel Alexander Building
11.00-12.30: Plenary 1: Feminist Institutionalism: Origins and Influences
The Alexander Arts Theatre, Samuel Alexander Building
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Shireen Hassim
Mona Lena Krook
Vivien Lowndes
Joni Lovenduski
Fiona Mackay (chair)
Georgina Waylen
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12.30-1.30: Lunch
Foyer, Samuel Alexander Building
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1.30-3.00: Panel Session 1
Towards Gendering Institutionalism: Equality in Europe
A113, Samuel Alexander Building
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Panel Chairs: Elaine Weiner (McGill University) and Heather MacRae (York University, Canada)
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The European Social Fund and the Institutionalization of Gender Mainstreaming in Sweden and Germany
Petra Ahrens (University of Antwerp) and Anne-Charlott Callerstig (Örebro University)
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Gender Mainstreaming and EU Climate Change Policy
Gill Allwood (Nottingham Trent University)
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Resistance to Gender Mainstreaming in EU Research Policy
Lut Mergaert (Yellow Window) and Emanuela Lombardo
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Benevolent Contestations: Mainstreaming, Judicialisation and Europeanization in the Norwegian Gender and Equality Debate
Hege Skjeie, Catherine Holst and Mari Teigen (Institute for Social Research, Norway)
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Engaging the State: Women’s Policy Agencies and Mechanisms for Gendered Change
A112, Samuel Alexander Building
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Chair: Laurel Weldon (Purdue Policy Research Institute)
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Gwynn Thomas (University of Buffalo)
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Amanda Gouws (University of Stellenbosch)
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Oskana Mejere (Vytautas Magnus University)
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Gender, Labour and Work
A215, Samuel Alexander Building
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Panel Chair: Silke Stabb (UN Women)
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Have Recent Judicial Decisions Across the Globe Improved Gender Justice for Women Workers?
Jane Aberhard-Hodges (Investing in Women)
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“Hostel" for Women: A Sociological Study of Women's Hostels in Mumbai
Mittal Chauhan (Mithibai College of Arts, Science & Commerce)
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The Institutional Embeddedness of Household Resource Allocation in the UK, India and Pakistan
Punita Chowbey (Sheffield Hallam University)
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Why Not Rip it Up and Start Again? Questioning Gender Equality in the Cocoa Value Chain
Lauren McCarthy (Royal Holloway, University of London) and Jeremy Moon
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New Perspectives on the Politics of Presence
A7, Samuel Alexander Building
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Panel Chair: Sarah Childs (University of Bristol)
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(How) Does Feminisation Change a Parliament?
Rainbow Murray (Queen Mary, University of London)
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The Institutional Non-Presence of Women
Suzanne Dovi (University of Arizona)
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Wendy Smooth (Ohio State University)
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Diversifying Representation: Tempering Expectations for change beyond the Legislature
Jennifer Piscopo (Occidental College, Los Angeles) and Susan Franceschet (University of Calgary)
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3.00- 3.30: Tea/Coffee
Foyer, Samuel Alexander Building
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3.30- 5.00: Panel Session 2
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A113, Samuel Alexander Building
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Panel Chair: Jennifer Thomson (Queen Mary University of London)
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New Institutions, New Gender Rules? Emerging Evidence from the ESRC-DfID Political Settlements Research Programmes
Fiona Mackay (University of Edinburgh) and Cera Murtagh (University of Edinburgh)
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Implementing the Good Friday Agreement: Understanding Institutional Change through Crisis and Attrition
Michelle Rouse (TJI Ulster University)
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Transforming Responses to Intimate Partner Violence in a Post-conflict Environment: The Case of Northern Ireland
Jessica Doyle (Ulster University)and Monica McWilliams
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International Law Norms for Gender Equality and Domestic Processes of Institutional Change: When and How the International May Matter
Catherine O’Rourke (Ulster University)
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Institutional Change, Gender Justice and Conflict in Columbia
Pilar Domingo (Overseas Development Institute) and Alina Rocha Menocal (Overseas Development Institute)
Feminist Institutionalism and Social Policy
A112, Samuel Alexander Building
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Panel Chair: Francesca Gains (University of Manchester)
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Melissa Haussman (Carleton University)
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Welfare Regimes and the Development of Gender Attitudes in Post-Communist Europe
Steven Saxonberg (Masaryk University, Brno)
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Silke Staab (UN Women)
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Nina Suesse (King's College London)
Resisting Institutional Change: Mechanisms and Actors
A215, Samuel Alexander Building
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Panel Chair: Elin Bjarnegård (Uppsala University)
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The Resilience of Masculinist Institutions: Empirical Evidence and Theoretical Reflections
Sabine Lang (Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies) and Birgit Sauer (University of Vienna)
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Subverting Quotas: Gendered Actors, Gendered Institutions
Leah Culhane (University of Manchester)
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Reproducing Male Dominance in Europe's New Democracies
Cristina Chiva (University of Salford)
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Fiona Buckley (University College Cork)
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Political Parties and Participation
A7, Samuel Alexander Building
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Panel Chair: Tània Verge (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
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How to Build a Women's Party (and How to Research One): Applying a Feminist Institutionalist Lens
Elizabeth Evans (Goldsmiths, University of London) and Meryl Kenny (University of Edinburgh)
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Diana Højlund Madsen (Aalborg University)
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Claire McGing (NUI Maynooth)
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Political Origins of the Female Franchise
Dawn Teele (University of Pennsylvania)
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5.00-5.15: Tea/Coffee
Foyer, Samuel Alexander Building
5.15-6.45: Plenary 2: Feminist Institutionalism: Key Concepts and Methods
The Alexander Arts Theatre, Samuel Alexander Building
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Elin Bjarnegård
Louise Chappell
Vivien Lowndes
Fiona Mackay
Meryl Kenny
Georgina Waylen (chair)
6.45: Drinks reception and finger buffet
Foyer, Samuel Alexander Building
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Tuesday 4th April
9.00-10.30: Plenary 3: Feminist Institutionalism in Practice
The Alexander Arts Theatre, Samuel Alexander Building
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Sarah Childs
Mieke Verloo
Tània Verge
Sylvia Walby
Georgina Waylen (chair)
Laurel Weldon
10.30-11.00: Tea/Coffee
Foyer, Samuel Alexander Building
11.00-12.30: Panel Session 3
Studying up? Researching Gendered Institutions in International Relations
A113, Samuel Alexander Building
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Panel Chair: Shireen Hassim (University of Witwatersrand)
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Critical Friends or De(con)structive Critics: How Should Feminist Academics Engage with Global Institutions and Gender Reform Agendas?
Fiona Mackay (University of Edinburgh) and Louise Chappell (University of New South Wales)
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The Women, Peace and Security Agenda and Post-conflict Political Institutions: A Feminist Institutional Analysis
Jennifer Thomson (Queen Mary, University of London)
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NATO Women: The Changing Role, Organisation and Activism of Military Women Within the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation 1961-2016
Katharine. A. M. Wright (University of Winchester) and Matthew Hurley (Oxford Brookes University)
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Researching Gender and UN Pre-deployment Training in the Rwanda Defence Force During Organisational Change
Georgina Holmes (University of Reading)
Understanding Policy: Change and Design
A112, Samuel Alexander Building
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Panel Chair: Claire Annesley (University of Sussex)
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Negotiating Gender Equitable Change in Bangladesh: The Role of Informal Institutions
Sohela Nazneen (Institute of Development Studies)
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Carmen Sepulveda (University of Manchester)
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Josefina Erikson (Uppsala University)
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Tanita Louise Maxwell (University of Aberdeen)
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Feminist Institutionalism in Unstable Institutional Environments
Andrea Kirszan (Central European University) and Conny Roggeband (University of Amsterdam)
Transforming/Gendering the Legislature
A215, Samuel Alexander Building
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Panel Chair: Susan Franceschet (University of Calgary)
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Cheryl N. Collier (University of Windsor) and Tracey Raney
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Understanding the US Congress as a Gendered Institution: The Perspectives of Women Members
Kelly Dittmar (Rutgers University-Camden), Kira Sanbonmatsu, and Susan J. Carroll
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Gendered Institutional Change: The Case of the Women and Equalities Committee in the UK Parliament
Sarah Childs (University of Bristol) and Chloe Challender
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Why does the Committee on Gender Equality not Gender Mainstream Legislation?
Mette Marie Stæhr Harder (Roskilde University)
Explaining the Representation of Women in Parliament: Candidate Selection and Quotas
A7, Samuel Alexander Building
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Panel Chair: Meryl Kenny (University of Edinburgh)
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Gender Differences in Political Career Progression: Evidence from the Republic of Ireland
Lisa Keenan (Trinity College Dublin)
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Renomination and Gender Bias: Institutionalist Analysis
Michal Smrek (Uppsala University)
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Change or More of the Same? Gender Quotas and the 2016 Irish General Election
Fiona Buckley (University College Cork) and Mary Brennan (University College Dublin)
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Female Candidates, Female MPs: Representation, Roles and Quotas. France, 1998-2017
Graziani Ghislain (Université Paris Diderot-Paris7/Università di Bologna)
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Tomas Turner-Zwinkels (University Of Basel), Marijtje van Duijn, Andreas Flache , Melinda Mills
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12.30-1.30: Lunch
Foyer, Samuel Alexander Building
1.30-3.00: Panel Session 4
Cabinets and Gender
A113, Samuel Alexander Building
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Panel Chair: Gwynn Thomas (University of Buffalo)
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Feminist Institutionalism and Cabinet Appointments: Tools and Numbers
Claire Annesley (University of Sussex), Karen Beckwith and Susan Franceschet (University of Calgary)
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Gendering Coalition Presidentialism in Brazil
Pedro G. dos Santos (Luther College) and Maria Luiza Gatto (University of Zürich) and Kristin N. Wylie (James Madison University)
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The Gendered Distribution of Ministries in German State Cabinets, 1990-2016
Isabel Köhler (Georg August University Göttingen)
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Institutions, Change, and Leadership: Women as National Executives in Anglo Systems
Patricia Lee Sykes (American University)
Understanding Institutional Dynamics
A112, Samuel Alexander Building
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Panel Chair: Anna Sanders (University of Manchester)
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Doing Gender in Municipal Politics: Local Variations of Gender Mainstreaming and Women's Inviobility
Renee Andersson (Örebro university) and Gun Hedlund
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Maria Bustelo (Complutense University of Madrid) and Julia Espinosa
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Gender, Actors and Rules: Understanding Institutional Dynamics in the Case of Police Governance
Francesca Gains (University of Manchester) and Vivien Lowndes (University of Birmingham)
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Tracing the Evolution, Structure and Content of Gender and Institutions Research
David Hudson, Bridi Rice, Chris Roche and Orlanda Ward (University College London)
Women Representing Women: Opportunities, Constraints and Contestations
A215, Samuel Alexander Building
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Panel Chair: Jennifer Piscopo (Occidental College, Los Angeles)
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Women Representing Women: Opportunities and Incentives in Divided Powers
Grace Lore (University of British Columbia)
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The Institutional Dynamics of Substantive Representation of Gender in Politics
Helena Stensöta (University of Gothenburg) and Lena Wängnerud
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Where There's a Will there Isn't Always a Way: The Case of the Brazilian's Women's Caucus
Larissa Peixoto Vale Gomes (Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil)
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Just Amongst Us: Women's Caucauses, Collaboration and Policy Making in US State Legislatures
Mirya R. Holman (Tulane University), Anna Mahoney (Tulane University), and Zhu Zhang
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Feminists or Women? Disputes over Gender Politics in Brazilian Parliament
Maíra Kubík Mano (Universidade Federal da Bahia)
FI and International Organisations
A7, Samuel Alexander Building
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Panel Chair: Shirin Rai (University of Warwick)
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Anne Jenichen (Aston University), Jutta Joachim, Andrea Schneiker, Nina Wüstemann
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Anna Van der Vleuten (Radboud University)
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Judit Fabian (University of Calgary)
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Different Ways of 'Seeing' Gender Within International Organisations: The OECD and the ECLAC
Rianne Mahon (Wilfrid Laurier University)
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External Influences: The Role of Interest Groups in Effecting Change in EU Political Institutions
Sara Reis (University of Sheffield)
3.00-3.30: Tea/Coffee
Foyer, Samuel Alexander Building
3.30-5.00: Panel Session 5
Constitutional Change and Design
A113, Samuel Alexander Building
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Panel Chair: Catherine O’ Rourke (University of Ulster)
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Please Don't Forget Women: Women Participation in the Institutional Transformation of Colombia
Olga Patricia Velaquez Ocampo (Universidad de los Andes)
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Clarisse Paradis Goulart (Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil) and Larissa Peixoto Vale Gomes
(Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil)
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Jennifer Piscopo (Occidental College, Los Angeles)
State Institutions and Women’s Rights
A112, Samuel Alexander Building
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Panel Chair: Carmen Sepulveda (University of Manchester)
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Addressing Gender Equality in Japan: Challenges and Potentials of Transforming Institutions
Maki Kimura (University College London)
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Moroccan Women and the Public Sphere: An Institutional Gendered Analysis
Amina Haddadi (Mohammed I University, Morocco)
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Muslim Women and Sharia Law in 'The West'
Amira Aftab (Macquarie University)
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Nicole George (University of Queensland)
The Republican Party as a Gendered Institution (Roundtable)
A215, Samuel Alexander Building
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Panel Chair: Ronnee Schreiber (San Diego State University)
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Race and Republican Women: Latinas and the Politics of Whiteness in the Post-Trump Era
Cristina Beltran (New York University)
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Republican Women in the 2016 Election: Progress or Same Old Patterns?
Kelly Dittmar (Rutgers University-Camden)
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The Republican Party and the Myth of Gender Neutrality
Ronnee Schreiber (San Diego State University)
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Higher Hurdles for Republican Women in U.S. Primaries
Shauna Shames (Rutgers University-Camden)
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Women and the Republican Party in Comparative Perspective
Christina Xydias (Clarkson University)
International Institutions and Domestic Politics: Gendering Interactions
A7, Samuel Alexander Building
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Panel Chair: Fiona Mackay (University of Edinburgh)
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From Yugoslavia to the EU: Transformations of Institutional Gender Knowledge in Croatia (1980-2013)
Leda Sutlovic (University of Vienna)
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Framing Gender Equality Policy in Serbia: From Unity to Disconnection
Zorana Antonijević (University of Novi Sad Center for Gender Studies)
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Do International Norms Matter? The Impact of CEDAW on Italian Domestic Politics and Policy
Alessia Donà (University of Trento, Italy)
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Gendering National Projects and Discourses in Feminist Institutionalism
Jill Vickers (Carleton University)
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5.00: Close
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