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Toward a Comparative Politics of Gender Research in which Women Matter

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2010

Aili Mari Tripp
Aili Mari Tripp
Affiliation:
University of Wisconsin-Madison. E-mail: atripp@wisc.edu
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Abstract

I ask whether comparative politics of gender (CPG) can maintain its normative roots in concerns related to social justice as it moves increasingly away from its interdisciplinary moorings in gender/women's studies and gravitates toward disciplinary concerns. I call for a broad framework for CPG, examining 1) the range and relevance of the questions we ask, the utility of interdisciplinarity, and the range of methods employed; 2) the research collaborations we develop, especially outside of the US–Europe nexus; 3) the way our work is disseminated; and 4) how it engages the policy and practitioner community.

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Symposium
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Perspectives on Politics , Volume 8 , Issue 1 , March 2010 , pp. 191 - 197
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Copyright © American Political Science Association 2010

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