Gender Research Network Launch Conference

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Call for Papers

Aims and Objectives

This interdisciplinary conference will address key debates around the theme of engendering politics and policy. Panels will take a comparative and international perspective on what it means to engender the political process and policy outcomes.

Key themes

• What steps have governments and political parties taken to feminize/engender politics?
• What tools and mechanisms can and do states use to address gender inequalities in society?
• What is the nature of the relationship between engendering politics and engendering policy?
• What are the barriers to tackling gender inequality in policy and politics?
• What are the intended and unintended gendered consequences of policy?
• What effects have gender-sensitive policies had on different groups of men and women?
• Drawing on comparative and international evidence, what lessons can be learned about the links between politics and policy in tackling gender inequalities?
• What role do local, national and international organizations play in tackling gender inequalities?

Panels

We invite papers in the following areas (please see panel outlines for full details)

• Gender and work
• Household division of labour
• Family policy
• Ageing, gender and citizenship
• Gender and international relations
• Gender and care
• Gender and youth
• The gender pay gap
• Advances in feminist political theory
• Gender and the European Union
• Political parties
• Governance and gender
• State feminism
• Feminist institutionalism
• Extending the political

There is also an open stream for poster submissions on the general conference themes.

Deadlines

Abstracts for posters and full papers must be submitted via email to genderconference@manchester.ac.uk by 26 March 2007. No late submissions can be considered.

Organisers

Claire Annesley and Kirstein Rummery, on behalf of the Gender Research Network, School of Social Sciences, University of Manchester

Abstract submissions

Please read the panel outlines before submitting your abstract. The abstract should be emailed to genderconference@manchester.ac.uk (no attachments), and should contain the following information:

• Title of paper
• Authors, including full email addresses and contact details for the lead author
• Panel number and title
• Abstract of paper – up to 200 words, and where relevant this should include the aims, methods and findings of your paper, and should indicate how it addresses the themes of the conference.

The deadline for abstract submissions is by 26 March 2007. No late submissions can be considered. Lead authors will be informed whether their paper has been accepted by the end of April. Negotiations about publication of a selection of papers with an international journal are underway: if authors wish to have their paper considered for publication they must submit a full draft of the paper prior to the conference.