Economics  |  History  |  Philosophy  |  Political Science  |  Sociology

 

Economics

Women in the economics workforce

Elisabetta Addis and Paola Villa (2003) ‘The Editorial Boards of Italian Economics Journals: Women, Gender, and Social Networking’, Feminist Economics 9(1): 75–91. 

Amanda Bayer and Cecilia E. Rouse (2016) ‘Diversity in the Economics Profession: A New Attack on an Old Problem’, The Journal of Economic Perspectives 30(4): 221–242. 

David Colander and Jessica Holmes (2007) ‘Gender and Graduate Economics Education in the US’, Feminist Economics 13(2): 93–116. 

Galina Hale and Tali Regev (2014) ‘Gender Ratios at Top PhD Programs in Economics’, Economics of Education Review 41: 55–70. 

Christiana Hilmer and Michael Hilmer (2007) ‘Women Helping Women, Men Helping Women? Same-Gender Mentoring, Initial Job Placements, and Early Career Publishing Success for Economics PhDs’,The American Economic Review 97(2): 422–426. 

Joyce P. Jacobsen (ed) (2006) ‘Explorations the Status of Women Economists’, Feminist Economics 12(3): 427–474. This section includes articles from guest authors Roberta Edgecombe Robb, Jonathan Burton, David H. Blackaby, Jane Humphries, Heather Joshi, Xiaobo Wang, and Xiao-yuan Don on the status of women in economics in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada and China. 

National reports on the status of women in economics

Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession, American Economic Association (CSWEP) (2018) ‘The 2017 Reports on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession’, CSWEP News 2018/1.

Canadian Women Economists Network (2017) CWEN/RFE Report on the Status of Women in Canadian Economics 2017. 

Silvana Tenreyro (2017) Royal Economic Society’s Report on The Gender Balance in UK Economics Departments and Research Institutes in 2016, RES Women’s Committee.

 

Gender and feminism in economics curriculum and research

Marianne A. Ferber (1986) ‘Citations: Are They an Objective Measure of Scholarly Merit?’, Signs 11(2): 381–389. 

Marianne A. Ferber (1988) ‘Citations and Networking’, Gender & Society 2(1): 82–89. 

Marianne A. Ferber and Michael Brün (2011) ‘The Gender Gap in Citations: Does It Persist?’, Feminist Economics 17(1): 151–158. 

Marianne A. Ferber and Julie Nelson (eds) (2003) Feminist Economics Today: Beyond Economic Man, London: The University of Chicago Press.

Julie A. Nelson (2001) ‘Economic Methodology and Feminist Critiques’, Journal of Economic Methodology 8(1): 93–97. 

Edith Kuiper and Jolande Sap (eds) (1995) Out of the Margin, Feminist Perspectives on Economics, London: Routledge.

Yana M. Rodgers (1996) ‘The Prevalence of Gender Topics in U.S. Economics Journals’, Feminist Economics 2(2): 129–135. 

Heather Sarsons (2015) ‘Gender Differences in Recognition of Group Work’, Harvard Economics Department Working Paper, 3 December.

Jean Shackelford (1992) ‘Feminist Pedagogy: A Means for Bringing Critical Thinking and Creativity to the Economics Classroom’, The American Economic Review 82(2): 570–76. 

Frances Woolley (2005) ‘The Citation Impact of Feminist Economics’, Feminist Economics 11(3): 85–106. 

International Association for Feminist Economics Course Syllabus Catalog

 

History

This list of further readings that traces the development of scholarship on gender in history is arranged chronologically.

Sheila Rowbotham (1973) Hidden from History: 300 Years of Women's Oppression and the Fight Against It, London: Pluto Press. 

Natalie Zemon Davis (1976) ‘Women’s History in Transition: The European Case’, Feminist Studies 3(3/4): 83–103. 

Joan Scott (1986) ‘Gender as a Category of Historical Analysis’, American Historical Review 91(5): 1053–1075. 

Mrinalini Sinha (1995) Colonial Masculinity: The ‘Manly Englishman’ and the ‘Effeminate Bengali’ in the Late Nineteenth Century, Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press.

Gail Bederman (1995) Manliness and Civilization: A Cultural History of Gender and Race in the United States, 1880–1917, Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

John Tosh (2005) Manliness and Masculinities in Nineteenth-century Britain: Essays on Gender, Family, and Empire, London: Routledge. 

Gisela Bock (2006) ‘Women’s History and Gender History: Aspects of an International Debate’, in Sue Morgan (ed) The Feminist History Reader, London: Routledge, pp. 104–115.

Afsaneh Najmabadi (2006) ‘Beyond the Americas: Are Gender and Sexuality Useful Categories of Historical Analysis?’, Journal of Women’s History 18(1): 11–21. 

Christopher E. Forth (2011) ‘Masculinités et virilités dans le monde anglophone’, Jean-Jacques Courtine, trans., in Jean-Jacques Courtine (ed) Histoire de la virilité, vol. III: La virilité en crise? XXe-XXIe siècle, Paris: Seuil: 131–55. 

Karen Offen and Chen Yan (eds) (2018) ‘Women’s History at the Cutting Edge’, Women's History Review (Special Issue) 27(1): 1–5. 

 

Philosophy

Linda Martín Alcoff (ed.) (2003) Singing in the Fire: Stories of Women in Philosophy. New York: Rowman & Littlefield.

Anita L. Allen, Anika Maaza Mann, Donna-Dale L. Marcano, Michele Moody-Adams, Jacqueline Scott, and George Yancy (2008) 'Situated Voices: Black Women in/on the Profession of Philosophy', Hypatia 23(2): 160–89. 

Louise Antony (2012) 'Different Voices or Perfect Storm: Why Are There So Few Women in Philosophy?' Journal of Social Philosophy 43(3): 227–55.

Kristie Dotson (2012) 'How Is This Paper Philosophy?' Comparative Philosophy 3(1): 3–29.

Sally Haslanger (2008) 'Changing the Ideology and Culture of Philosophy: Not by Reason (Alone)', Hypatia 23(2): 210–23.

Katrina Hutchison and Fiona Jenkins (eds) (2013) Women in Philosophy: What Needs to Change? Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Sarah-Jane Leslie, Andrei Cimpian, Meredith Meyer, and Edward Freeland (2015) 'Expectations of Brilliance Underlie Gender Distributions across Academic Disciplines', Science 347(6219): 262-265.

Janice Moulton (1983) 'A Paradigm of Philosophy: The Adversary Method', in Sandra Harding and Merrill B. Hintikka (eds) Discovering Reality: Feminist Perspectives on Epistemology, Metaphysics, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science, Springer, Dordrecht, 149–64.

Eric Schwitzgebel and Carolyn Dicey Jennings (2017) 'Women in Philosophy: Quantitative Analyses of Specialization, Prevalence, Visibility, and Generational Change', Public Affairs Quarterly 31(2): 83–105.

Margaret Urban Walker (2005) 'Diotima’s Ghost: The Uncertain Place of Feminist Philosophy in Professional Philosophy', Hypatia 20(3): 153–64. 

 

Political Science

Women in the political science workforce

Amy L. Atchison (2018) ‘Towards the Good Profession: Improving the Status of Women in Political Science’, European Journal of Politics and Gender 1(1–2): 279–298. 

Charity Butcher and Timothy Kersey (2015) ‘When Winning is Really Losing: Teaching Awards and Women Political Science Faculty’, PS: Political Science & Politics 48(1): 138–141. 

Jennifer Curtin (2013) ‘Women and Political Science in New Zealand’, Political Science 65(1): 63–83. 

European Political Science (2016) ‘EPS Symposium Diversity and Inclusion in Political Science’, European Political Science 15(4): 437–555.  This issue includes articles from Daniel Stockemer, Alasdair Blair, Ekaterina Rashkova, Jonathon Moses, Marian Sawer, Jennifer Curtin, Cecilia Carpiuc, Kate Mattocks, Shardia Briscoe-Palmer, Yasmeen Abu-laban, Anil Awesti, Matt Flinders, Heather Savigny, Monica De Luna, Jackie Steele covering gender issues in Australia and New Zealand, Latin America, United Kingdom, Canada Germany, Portugal and Japan. 

European Political Science (2015) ‘Women in European Political Science’, European Political Science 14(2): 75–136. This section includes articles from Stephen Bates, Heather Savigny, Johanna Kantola, Gabriele Abels, Dorian Woods, Arantxa Elizondo, Jacqueline Briggs, Lisa Harrison on the status of women in Finland, Germany, Spain, United Kingdom, Europe. 

Miki Caul Kittilson (2015) ‘Advancing Women in Political Science: Navigating Gendered Structures of Opportunity’, PS: Political Science & Politics 48(3): 450–453. 

Daniel Maliniak, Amy Oakes, Susan Peterson and Michael J. Tierney (2008) ‘Women in International Relations’, Politics & Gender 4(1): 122–144. 

Carol Mershon and Denise Walsh (2015) ‘Organizing Women: Diversifying Leadership and Addressing Discrimination in Political Science Departments’, PS: Political Science & Politics 48(3): 459–463. 

Shauna L. Shames and Tess Wise (2017) ‘Gender, Diversity, and Methods in Political Science: A Theory of Selection and Survival Biases’, PS: Political Science & Politics 50(3): 811–823. 

Gender and feminism in political science curriculum and research

European Political Science (2016) ‘Gender in European Political Science Education: Taking Stock and Future Directions’, European Political Science 15(3): 281–342. This issue includes articles from authors Liza Mugge, Elizabeth Evans, Isabelle Engeli, Alba Alonso, Emanuela Lombardo, Saskia Bonjour, Liza Mugge, Conny Roggeband, Elizabeth Evans, Fran Amery, Gabriele Abels and Birgit Sauer covering Spain, The Netherlands, United Kingdom, Germany, Austria. 

Jim Jose, Alison Convery, Kcasey-Renea McLoughlin and Stephen Owen (2011) ‘Reproducing Political Subjects: Feminist Scholarship and the Political Science Curriculum’, Australian Journal of Political Science 46(3): 535–549. 

Dawn L Teele and Kathleen Thelen (2017) ‘Gender in the Journals: Publication Patterns in Political Science’, PS: Political Science & Politics 50(2): 433–477. 

Joni Lovenduski (2015) Gendering Politics, Feminising Political Science. Colchester: ECPR Press.

A. Lanethea Mathews and Kristi Andersen (2001) ‘A Gender Gap in Publishing? Women’s Representation in Edited Political Science Books’, PS: Political Science and Politics 34(1), 143–147. 

Brooke Ackerly and Liza Mügge (eds) (2016) ‘Mainstreaming Gender in the Teaching and Learning of Politics’, PS: Political Science & Politics 49(3): 541–570.  This section includes articles from Brooke Ackerly, Liza Mügge, Amy L. Atchison, Tania Verge, Rebecca S. Evans, Rosalyn Cooperman, Melina Patterson, Jess Rigelhaupt, Amy Mazur, Fiona Macaulay covering political science, methods, international relations, public policy and peace studies. 

Marian Sawer (2004) ‘The Impact of Feminist Scholarship on Australian Political Science’, Australian Journal of Political Science 39(3): 553–566. 

Sue Tolleson-Rinehart and Susan J. Carroll (2006) ‘“Far From Ideal”: The Gender Politics of Political Science’, The American Political Science Review 100(4): 507–513. 

Erin Tolley (2017) ‘Into the Mainstream or Still at the Margins? 50 Years of Gender Research in the Canadian Political Science Association’, Canadian Journal of Political Science 50(1): 143–161. 

Helen Williams, Stephen Bates, Laura Jenkins, Darcy Luke and Kelly Rogers (2015) ‘Gender and Journal Authorship: An Assessment of Articles Published by Women in Three Top British Political Science and International Relations Journals’, European Political Science 14(2): 116–130.  

 

Sociology

Joan Acker (1990) ‘Hierarchies, Jobs, Bodies: A Theory of Gendered Organizations’, Gender & Society 4(2): 139–158. 

Joan Alway (1995) ‘The Trouble With Gender: Tales of the Still-Missing Feminist Revolution in Sociological Theory’, Sociological Theory 13(3): 209-228. 

Gurminder K. Bhambra (2010) ‘Sociology and Post-colonialism: Another ‘Missing’ Revolution?’, in Judith Burnett, Syd Jeffers and Graham Thomas (eds) New Social Connections, London: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 125–140. 

Hae Yeon Choo and Myra Marx Ferree (2010) ‘Practicing Intersectionality in Sociological Research: A Critical Analysis of Inclusions, Interactions, and Institutions in the Study of Inequalities’, Sociological Theory 28(2): 129–149. 

Raewyn Connell (2014) ‘The Sociology of Gender in Southern Perspective’, Current Sociology 62(4): 550–567. 

Chrys Ingraham (1994) ‘The Heterosexual Imaginary: Feminist Sociology and Theories of Gender’, Sociological Theory 12(2): 203–219.   

Michèle Lamont (2009) How Professors Think, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.   

Aileen Moreton-Robinson (2006) ‘Towards a New Research Agenda? Foucault, Whiteness and Indigenous Sovereignty’, Journal of Sociology 42(4): 383–395. 

Silke Roth and Katherine Dashper (2016) ‘Sociology in the 1980s: The Rise of Gender (and Intersectionality)’, Sociology 50(6): NP1–NP12. 

Beverley Skeggs (2008) ‘The Dirty History of Feminism and Sociology: Or the War of Conceptual Attrition’, The Sociological Review 56(4): 670–690. 

Zlatko Skrbis and John Germov (2004) ‘The Most Influential Books in Australian Sociology (MIBAS), 1963–2003’, Journal of Sociology 40(3): 283–303.   

Dorothy E. Smith (1990) The Conceptual Practices of Power: A Feminist Sociology of Knowledge, Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

Sylvia Walby (2011) ‘The Impact of Feminism on Sociology’, Sociological Research Online 16(3): 1–10.