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Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies Resources

Feminist Governance and Leadership Books, Articles, Library of Congress Guides

 

 

BOOKS

  • The Portable Feminist Reader. Gay, Roxane. (2025) ULIB e-book

  • The Oxford handbook of gender and politics (2013), ULIB
  • Handbook of Feminist Governance (2023), edited by M. Sawer, et al.  
  • Transnational Feminist Rhetorics and Gendered Leadership in Global Politics: From Daughters of Destiny to Iron Ladies (2017), by Rebecca S. Richards ONLINE UAlbany

  • Governance Feminism (2 vols, 2018 and 2019) by J. Halley et al. ULIB

  • Governance feminism: notes from the field ULIB
  • 2019 Governance feminism: an introduction ULIB  Halley, Janet E., Kotiswaran, Prabha, Rebouché, Rachel, Shamir, Hila.
  • 2024 PEW Research Center - About a third of UN member states have ever had a woman leader -https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/10/03/women-leaders-around-the-world/
  • Federalism, feminism and multilevel governance, Haussman, Melissa,-- 1959-; Sawer, Marian; Vickers, Jill, (2010).
  • The First Political Order: How Sex Shapes Governance and National Security Worldwide (2021), by V.M. Hudson, et al. (requested order)
  • Gender, Governance and Feminist Analysis: Missing in Action? (2017), edited by C. Hudson, et al. (Requested order)
  • Feminist Strategies in International Governance (2014), edited b y G. Cagler, et al.
  • Global Governance: Feminist Perspectives (2008), edited by S. Rai and G. Waylen
  • Negotiating gender, policy and politics in the Caribbean: feminist strategies, masculinist resistance and transformational possibilities, Hosein, Gabrielle,-- editor; (2017). ULIB
  • Gender, Communications, and Reproductive Health in International Development, Matos, Carolina, (2023). ULIB

GOOGLE SCHOLAR SAMPLE Articles – Feminist Leadership?  Chance of getting a Female President in the US?

Alexander, Amy C., and Farida Jalalzai. "Symbolic empowerment and female heads of states and government: A global, multilevel analysis." Politics, Groups, and Identities 8, no. 1 (2020): 24-43.

Burns, Courtney, and Amanda Murdie. "Female chief executives and state human rights practices: Self-fulfilling the political double bind." Journal of Human Rights 17, no. 4 (2018): 470-484

Cantrell, Tania H., and Ingrid Bachmann. "Who is the lady in the window? A comparison of international and national press coverage of first female government heads." Journalism Studies 9, no. 3 (2008): 429-446.

Choudhary, Amod. "Impact of women heads-of-state on human development." Global Journal of Business Research 4, no. 4 (2010): 71-79.

Folbre, Nancy. "Women on their own: global patterns of female headship." In The Women And International Development Annual, Volume 2, pp. 89-126. Routledge, 2019.

Harder, Mette Marie, and Christoffer Harder. "COVID-19 response strategies: differences between strategies of male and female heads of governments?." Available at SSRN 3679608 (2020).

Jalalzai, Farida. "Women heads of state and government." Measuring Women’s Political Empowerment across the Globe: Strategies, Challenges and Future Research (2018): 257-282.

Jalalzai, Farida, and Amy C. Alexander. "The symbolic effects of female heads of states and government." The Symbolic Effects of Female Heads of States and Government (2014).

Powell, Jonathan, and Karina Mukazhanova-Powell. "Demonstrating credentials? Female executives, women’s status, and the use of force." Journal of Women, Politics & Policy 40, no. 2 (2019): 241-262.

Vijeyarasa, Women’s movements under women presidents: bringing agender perspective to the legal system (2021) GENDER & DEVELOPMENT2021, VOL. 29, NOS. 2–3, 569–591https://doi.org/10.1080/13552074.2021.1978736

Wijekoon, Lavanga. "Why Do South and Southeast Asians Vote for Female Heads of State?." Asian Journal of Political Science 2 (2000): 57-72.

Sample Perspectives on Margaret Thatcher Leadership (Google Scholar)

Aguilera Cartagena, Tamara. "Gender self-representation in the discourse of Margaret Thatcher before, during and after her role as the first female Prime Minister in the UK." (2023).

Antila, Sofia. "“This is what a feminist looks like": A comparative case study of neoliberal discourses from Thatcher to May and its gendered implications." (2023).

Geraghty, Christine. "Taking on Margaret Thatcher: Biography, feminism and the Iron lady." Journal of British Cinema and Television 13, no. 4 (2016): 610-627.

Ponton, Douglas M. "The female political leader: A study of gender-identity in the case of Margaret Thatcher." Journal of Language and Politics 9, no. 2 (2010): 195-218.

Ribberink, J. C. A. P. ""'I don't think of myself as the first woman Prime Minister': Gender, Identity and Image in Margaret Thatcher's Career'." In Toye, Richard and Julie Gottlieb, Making Reputations. Power, Persuasion and the Individual in Modern British Politics. IB Tauris, 2005.

 

  • Gender Responses to Feminist Foreign Policy - gender-responsive approaches to foreign policy  UN Women –  https://unwomen.org/sites/default/files/2023-09/gender-responsive-approaches-to-foreign-policy-and-the-2030-agenda-feminist-foreign-policies-en.pdf

  • Feminist foreign policies (FFP) and feminist development policies- Publications

https://www.icrw.org/publications/feminist-foreign-policy-and-development-finance-for-gender-equality/

Feminist democratic innovations in policy and politics https://bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journals/pp/52/2/article-p177.xml

  • Feminist policy and platform economy: insights, methods and

https://policyreview.info/articles/analysis/feminist-policy-and-platform-economy-insights-methods-and-challenges

  • UN Women Strategic Plan 2022–2025