Call for PapersWorkshop: The University of Manchester, Nov 30th – Dec 1st 2023PSA Women and Politics Specialist Group (sponsored by EPOP Anthony King Award) Deadline: 4th October 2023 A workshop exploring recent developments and future challenges in the field of gender and elections, primarily in the UK but also across Europe. As the UK heads for a General… Continue reading The Study of Gender and Elections: New Challenges and Agendas
Annual Conference Call for Papers
PSA Annual International Conference25-27 March 2024 – University of Strathclyde in Glasgow This 2024 PSA conference explores the theme ‘After (Neo-) Liberalism: Towards an Alternative Paradigm?’ The PSA Women and Politics Specialist Group have opened our call for papers. We welcome both individual paper submissions and whole panel proposals that explore the experience and voices of… Continue reading Annual Conference Call for Papers
Summer Online Writing Group
Over the Summer PSA Women and Politics SG will be hosting an online Summer writing group. We will meet online and support each other with writing goals over the Summer. The group will run every Wednesday from 14th June to 30th August 9am to 12:30pm on MS Teams. You can join the event here: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_YjNlNjMyMTEtNzYxOC00NjJkLTlkYzItODI1ZjlmNDdhMTVk%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%222e9f06b0-1669-4589-8789-10a06934dc61%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%2206cb457b-f503-49a5-a1b6-25eaf3b11656%22%7d The schedule will… Continue reading Summer Online Writing Group
Call for papers – PSA Annual International Conference 2022
PSA Women and Politics Specialist GroupCall for PapersPSA Annual International Conference10TH – 13TH March 202 – York University #PSA22 This 2022 PSA conference takes ‘the margins’ as a vantage point to investigate political issues and developments. As the world reels from one of its worst crises in a generation, issues, and actors hitherto at the… Continue reading Call for papers – PSA Annual International Conference 2022
Not interested? Women’s interests are also political!
Not interested? Women’s interests are also political! By Marta Fraile, Monica Ferrin, Raúl Gómez and Gema García-Albacete * People around the world are routinely asked survey questions about their interest in politics. No matter in which part of the world, women are less likely than men to say they are interested in politics. The gender… Continue reading Not interested? Women’s interests are also political!
Call for papers — PSA Annual International Conference
PSA Women and Politics Specialist Group Call for Papers The 70th PSA Annual International Conference 6 - 8 April 2020 Edinburgh International Conference Centre and Sheraton Grand Hotel & Spa PSA at 70: Re-imagining Politics as the PSA turns 70, politics faces multiple uncertainties. The international liberal order is being challenged by new security threats… Continue reading Call for papers — PSA Annual International Conference
PSA Women and Politics Specialist Group at the PSA Conference 2019
We have a jam-packed PSA conference ahead of us - here in one handy blog post are all of the Women and Politics panels at Nottingham this year. Of especial note is our SG meeting on Monday lunchtime and our lunch on Tuesday to honour Professor Cynthia Enloe - see you there! Monday 15th 9.30-11.00… Continue reading PSA Women and Politics Specialist Group at the PSA Conference 2019
The Politics of Weight: Feminist Dichotomies of Power in Dieting
In recent weeks, celebrities who promote dieting products on social media websites have been heavily criticised by both medical professionals and campaigners. Professor Stephen Powis, an NHS medical director, argues that celebrities who advertise dieting pills and detox teas are causing irreversible damage to young people, who may seek to lose weight using “ineffective” and… Continue reading The Politics of Weight: Feminist Dichotomies of Power in Dieting
Where’s Mum? She’s in the House – Parents in Parliament
by Rosie Campbell and Sarah Childs A tweet from a male MP - the scan of his partner’s pregnancy. A tweet about a male MP – his partner posting a picture of their daughter screaming as he speaks in the first #babyleave debate. The debacle of Brandon Lewis MP following his whip’s instruction and breaking his… Continue reading Where’s Mum? She’s in the House – Parents in Parliament
A Hundred Years of Women’s Suffrage: Looking back, moving forward
The PSA Women and Politics Specialist group recently teamed up with the Birkbeck Centre for the Study of British Politics & Public Life (led by Prof Sarah Childs), and the British Group of the Interparliamentary Union to host a two-day conference in the Houses of Parliament entitled: “A Hundred Years of Women’s Suffrage: Looking back,… Continue reading A Hundred Years of Women’s Suffrage: Looking back, moving forward
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