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What It Means to Study Gender and the State

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 September 2005

Mala Htun
Mala Htun
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The New School for Social Research
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At the 2005 meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Claudine Gay and Wendy Smooth organized a roundtable to reflect on the politics of studying gender. In my intervention there, I argued that pervasive ignorance of what gender is results in misrecognition of the work we do. Most people do not know what it means to study gender. When we say gender they think we mean women, sexuality, feminist theory, an epistemological position, or a political movement. Such misrecognition marginalizes our research, creating problems for publishing and promotion. How can we combat it? By arming ourselves intellectually.

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Critical Perspectives on Gender and Politics
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Politics & Gender , Volume 1 , Issue 1 , March 2005 , pp. 157 - 166
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© 2005 The Women and Politics Research Section of the American Political Science Association

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