Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: he study of gender and sexuality in political science used to be a question of absence, as scholars grappled with Cynthia Enloe's famous question in Bananas, Beaches and Bases (UC Press, 2000, p. 7): "where are the women?"Today, women are present in the discipline as both knowledge producers and subjects of study.But formal inclusion does not guarantee substantive equality, and silences and exclusions remain pronounced.Nor is "woman" a stable political category, as decolonial, antiracist, and queer theorists challenge monolithic, essentialized accounts of gender and sex.Political science now asks more complex questions-about the multiple marginalizations that some women and LGBTQ+ people face across race, class, nationality, and ability and about capitalism and the gendered division of labor.Notably, recent books embrace diverse methods and center the lives and agency of the communities they discuss.Gender and sexuality, as objects of study, often turn our attention to the "underside" of political institutions and capitalist formations; as methods, they reveal how everyday people theorize and navigate the power asymmetries that shape their lives.
Source: Perspectives on Politics
Authors: Sarah Bufkin, Anne Wolf, Kathrin Bachleitner
Language: English
Topic: Gender and Feminist Studies
Subfield: Gender Studies
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4417270794
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