Political Sociology Comprehensive Exams (FALL 2013)
DAY 2: Gender, the State and Social Movements (Regional focus: Latin America)
Committee: Javier Auyero (Chair), Michael Young, Maya Charrad
1. Alvarez, Sonia. 1999. “Advocating Feminism: The Latin American Feminist NGO ‘Boom’”.
International Feminist Journal of Politics 1 (2).
2. Alvarez, Sonia. 1990. Engendering Democracy in Brazil: Women’s Movements in
Transition Politics. Princeton University Press.
3. Bumiller, K. 2008. In an Abusive State: How Neoliberalism Appropriated the Feminist
Movement against Sexual Violence. Durham: Duke University Press
4. Brush, Lisa. 2011. Poverty, Battered Women, and Work in U.S. Public Policy.
5. Brush, Lisa. 2002. “Changing the Subject: Gender and Welfare Regime Studies”. Social
Politics 9 (2): 161-186.
6. Craske, Nikki. 1999. Women and Politics in Latin America.
7. Dore, Elizabeth and Maxine Molyneux (eds). 2000. Hidden Histories of Gender and the
State in Latin America.
8. Enloe, Cynthia. 2000. Bananas, Beaches, and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of
International Politics. University of California Press.
9. Fraser, Nancy. 1990. “Rethinking the Public Sphere: A Contribution to the Critique of
Actually Existing Democracy.” Social Text 25/26: 56-80.
10. Fraser, Nancy. 1995. “From redistribution to recognition? Dilemmas of justice in a 'postsocialist' age.” New left review, 68-93.
11. Fraser, Nancy. 1989. Unruly Practices: Power, Discourse, and Gender in Contemporary
Social Theory. (“What’s critical about critical theory? The case of Habermas and gender”;
“Women. Welfare, and the Politics of Need Interpretation”; “Struggle over Needs:
Outline of a Socialist-Feminist Critical Theory of Late Capitalist Political Culture”)
12. Gordon, Linda (ed). 1990. Women, the State, and Welfare. University of Wisconsin
Press.
13. Hautzinger, S. 2007. Violence in the City of Women. Berkeley: University of California
Press
14. Htun, M. and S.L. Weldon. 2012. The Civic Origins of Progressive Policy Change:
Combating Violence against Women in Global Perspective. American Political Science
Review 106 (3): 548-569.
15. Kleinman, Sherryl. 1996. Opposing Ambitions: Gender and Identity in an Alternative
Organization.
16. Lind, Amy. 2005. Gendered Paradoxes: Women’s Movements, State Restructuring, and
Global Development in Ecuador. Penn State University Press.
17. Martin, Patricia Yancey. 2004. “Gender as a Social Institution.” Social Forces 82:1249–73.
18. Merry, Sally Engle. 2006. Human Rights and Gender Violence: Translating International
Law into Local Justice. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
19. Moghadam, Valentine M. 2005.Globalizing Women: Transnational Feminist Networks.
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
20. Molyneux, Maxine. 1985. “Mobilization without Emancipation? Women’s Interests, the
State, and Revolution in Nicaragua.” Feminist Studies.
21. Nelson, J. 2003. Women of Color and the Reproductive Rights Movement. New York
University Press.
22. Orloff, Ann. 1993. “Gender and the Social Rights of Citizenship.” American Sociological
Review 58 (3): 303-328.
23. Paley, Julia. 2001. Marketing Democracy: Power and Social Movements in PostDictatorship Chile. University of California Press.
24. Pateman, Carole. 1989. ‘The Patriarchal Welfare State”. In The Disorder of Women.
25. Reinelt, Claire. 1995. “Moving onto the Terrain of the State: The Battered Women’s
Movement and the Politics of Engagement.” In Myra Marx Ferree and Patricia Yancey
Martin, editors. Feminist Organizations: Harvest of the New Women’s Movement, pp.84104. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
26. Richards, Patricia. 2004. Pobladoras, Indigenas and the State: Conflicts over Women’s
Rights in Chile.
27. Ray, R. and A.C. Korteweg. 1999. “Women’s Movements in the Third World: Identity,
Mobilization, and Autonomy.” Annual Review of Sociology 25: 47-71
28. Scheper-Hughes, Nancy. 1993. Death without Weeping: The Violence of Everyday Life in
Brazil.
29. Stephens, Lynn. 1997. Women and Social Movements in Latin America: Power from
Below.
30. Waylen, Georgina. 1996. Gender in Third World Politics. Boulder: Lynne Rienner.
31. Wood, Elizabeth. 2003. Insurgent Collective Action and Civil War in El Salvador
32. Wright, M. 2006. Disposable women and other myths of global capitalism. Routledge.
21 books, 11 articles
Relevant Day One Readings
1. Charrad, M. 2001. States and Women’s Rights.
2. Connell, R.W. 1987. Gender and Power: Society, the Person, and Sexual Politics.
3. MacKinnon, C. 1989. Toward a Feminist Theory of the State.