Abstract
This essay offers a conceptualization of a comparative politics of gender (CPG) and some explanations for why CPG work is marginalized in the comparative politics subfield. I delineate CPG as a field of study in which gendered dependent or independent variables are the defining feature and present illustrative examples of four different types of CPG research. I contend that institutional and historical factors account for much of the marginalization of CPG research, and I propose some courses of actions through which CPG scholars can lessen this marginalization. The failure of comparative politics scholars to engage with gendered work is also a serious problem. The essay concludes by offering some suggestions for better integrating CPG scholarship into the subfield.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 169-175 |
| Number of pages | 7 |
| Journal | Perspectives on Politics |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue number | 1 |
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| State | Published - Mar 2010 |
