🏅In one of this week's most read articles, "Making Women Visible" Jessica Kim & Kathleen M. Fallon use multilevel modeling on 87 countries to test what impact gender quotas have on beliefs about women in politics. Available 🌟#OpenAccess🌟 buff.ly/txfaIpi

📢New issue of #PAG21 is out!📢 In "Shifting Stereotypes About Men and Women Candidates", Claire Gothreau & Lasse Laustsen provide experimental evidence suggesting that gender stereotypes are less of a barrier to candidacy than they once were. gendersky buff.ly/dmkHY11

📢New issue of #PAG21 is out!📢 Our December 2025 issue features research on women candidates, support for women's reproductive policies, the role of religion on transgender rights, femonationalism, solidarity politics, and more.

NEW ISSUE from @politicsgenderj.bsky.social - Politics & Gender - Volume 21 - Issue 4 - December 2025 - https://cup.org/4sboZSj cc @apsa.bsky.social

🏅In one of our most read articles this week, "Democratic Backsliding and the Instrumentalization of Women's Rights in Turkey", Yeşim Arat explores the dynamics of co-opting women's rights throughout the backsliding process. 🌟Available #OpenAccess🌟 buff.ly/uOHHqxe

📢New issue of #PAG21 is out!📢 In light of the 25th anniversary of the UNSCR 1325, the new P&G issue highlights submissions in the subfield of IR, featuring new research on Women, Peace, and Security, gender and diplomacy, and feminist foreign policy. buff.ly/trYp4ua

📣 Out on #FirstView 📣 In "Women or Fetuses First?", @profamandaroberti.bsky.social, @profkmorgan.bsky.social & @katiekrumbholz.bsky.social investigate the effects of a pro-woman framing of pro-life policies. 🌟 Available #OpenAccess 🌟 gendersky polisky buff.ly/ugrRv1R

🏅In one of our most read articles this week, "Masculinity and Sexuality in Populist Radical Right Leadership", Nik Linders & co-authors find variations in the role of masculinity and sexuality in Dutch PRR leadership 🇳🇱 🌟 Available #OpenAccess 🌟 buff.ly/8Q5gCLC

📣 Out on #FirstView 📣 In "Complex, Conditional, and Contested", @rainbowmurray.bsky.social analyzes representative claims to explore the relationship between descriptive and substantive representation of women in France 🇫🇷 🌟 Available #OpenAccess 🌟 buff.ly/oWpVWw6

I’m really proud of this piece. Self-placement measures of masculinity and femininity are now present in most major institutional surveys (GSS, ANES, etc), but there’s still a lot we don’t know about how they work.

📣 Out on #FirstView 📣 In "Longitudinal Measures of Masculinity and Femininity", @dancassino.bsky.social analyzes the stability of two self-placement measures of gender, as well as how change in self-report could be structured by political views. Available #OpenAccess buff.ly/pxpkKvs

✨Call for Submissions✨ A team of scholars is soliciting abstracts on Abortion Storytelling in State Politics. The collection will be featured in a Critical Perspectives proposal for Politics & Gender. 🗓️Deadline: February 1, 2026. Read the call in the link below: buff.ly/gjBu5Ti

📣 Out on #FirstView 📣 In "Who Gets to Speak?", Edalina Rodrigues Sanches & Ana Espírito-Santo investigate gender bias in speechmaking in South Africa 🇿🇦 gendersky polisky buff.ly/33fAqJt

New #PAG21 Book Review 📚 @karolinefaerber.bsky.social reviews "The Face of the Nation" by @eliseinthewoods.bsky.social The book explores how international affairs institutions are gendered, racialized, and heteronormative. gendersky polisky buff.ly/nJ8DcEb

📢 New #PAG21 Book Review 📚 Malena Rosé Sundström reviews "Feminist Foreign Policy in Theory and in Practice" by Stephenie Foster & Susan A. Markham. The book outlines the foundations of FFP, as well as approaches for its implementation. gendersky polisky buff.ly/SitBH5P

🏅In one of our most read articles this week, "Voting against Women" Sally White, Eve Warburton & co-authors measure the presence and effect of political patriarchal values on women's political representation in 🇮🇩 #OpenAccess gendersky polisky buff.ly/sMeTfpw

📢 New #PAG21 Book Review 📚 Summer Lindsey & @mikaylastokes.bsky.social review "Positioning Women in Conflict Studies" by @sabrinamkarim.bsky.social & Daniel W. Hill, Jr. The book proposes a more careful differentiation between gender equality and women's status as concepts. buff.ly/QnBjfgv

📢New issue of #PAG21 is out!📢 In "Resisting the Tide", @tonihaastrup.bsky.social explores the effects of global anti-gender mobilizations on the WPS agenda across Africa, and the ways in which African feminist movements resist the pressure and reimagine peace. gendersky polisky buff.ly/CRbjIik

📢New issue of #PAG21 is out!📢 In "The WPS Agenda Beyond 2025", Chantal de Jonge Oudraat & Michael E. Brown call for a WPS Treaty to re-validate and defend the WPS agenda. gendersky polisky buff.ly/X9KqSsj

New text in @politicsgenderj.bsky.social! How can FFPs transform peacebuilding? Currently open access!

📢New issue of #PAG21 is out!📢 In "Whither Women and Peace and Security?", Valerie M. Hudson reflects on the current (and future) state of the WPS agenda. gendersky polisky buff.ly/4Rmrbye

📢New issue of #PAG21 is out!📢 In "Pieces of the Same Puzzle", Phillipp Schulz and Chloé Lewis highlight the presence-absence of men and masculinities in the WPS agenda. gendersky polisky buff.ly/4QYaX2m

📢New issue of #PAG21 is out!📢 In "Queering the Gender Perspective in the Women, Peace, and Security Agenda", @jamiejhagen.bsky.social considers the challenges involved in forging a queerer future in WPS. gendersky polisky buff.ly/qvNpibx

📢New issue of #PAG21 is out!📢 In "1325 at 25", Soumita Basu reflects on the importance of UNSCR 1325 as a tool despite its frequent misuse by multiple actors to advance interests other than feminist peace. polisky gendersky buff.ly/bkp6pOl

📢New issue of #PAG21 is out!📢 In their critical perspectives article, "WPS at 25", @doris-asante.bsky.social and @drljshepherd.bsky.social look at NAPs in the context of a growing WPS Agenda. polisky gendersky buff.ly/ZdtsAh3

📢New issue of #PAG21 is out!📢 In "UNSCR 1325 Past, Present, and Future", Summer Lindsey introduces our critical perspectives series focused on the state of UNSCR 1325. gendersky polisky buff.ly/0v9mWuH

🏅In one of our most read articles this week, James Piazza & Lauren O'Rourke test the link between hostile sexism and support for political violence in the United States 🇺🇸 🌟Available #OpenAccess🌟 gendersky polisky buff.ly/ssaKsWn

📢New issue of #PAG21 is out!📢 In "Contending with the Coloniality of Feminist Foreign Policy", @tonihaastrup.bsky.social explores the absence of African knowledge from FFP agendas. 🌟Available #OpenAccess🌟 gendersky polisky buff.ly/tbJwU3s

Where not #OpenAccess, the articles in the latest issue of @politicsgenderj.bsky.social#OpenAccessare free to read until the end of 2025 - Politics & Gender - Volume 21 - Issue 3 - https://cup.org/4oTfsgO

📢New issue of #PAG21 is out!📢 In "Civil Society and Feminist Foreign Policies in Latin America", Daniela Sepúlveda overviews the work of the Platform for Feminist Foreign Policy in Latin America and the role of civil society in advancing FFP. gendersky polisky buff.ly/dk6nkZz

📢New issue of #PAG21 is out!📢 In their notes from the field, "Troubled Encounters", @balnik.bsky.social & Younna Christiansen outline the challenges of implementing a feminist foreign policy in the context of peacebuilding. gendersky polisky buff.ly/XFbx7St

📢New issue of #PAG21 is out!📢 In "Claiming Historical Responsibility", @karolinefaerber.bsky.social & @erdfraeuleinma.bsky.social analyze how Germany 🇩🇪 represents, negotiates and reproduces its colonial past in their FFP. 🌟Available #OpenAccess🌟 gendersky polisky buff.ly/vwGJ9bg

📢New issue of #PAG21 is out!📢 In her notes from the field "Feminist Government but No Feminist Foreign Policy", @leclerck.bsky.social explores why the Canadian 🇨🇦 government has not delivered on a formal FFP despite its promises to do so. gendersky polisky buff.ly/wPx0LsJ

📢New issue of #PAG21 is out!📢 In "Feminist Foreign Policy Without Migration?", @hlmuehlenhoff.bsky.social, Lara Sosa Popovic & @nwelfens.bsky.social investigate why migration is sidelined as a policy issue within FFP Guidelines in Germany 🇩🇪 🌟Available #OpenAccess🌟 buff.ly/eG8uces

📢New issue of #PAG21 is out!📢 In "The Adoption of Feminist Foreign Policy" @thomsonjennifer.bsky.social & @lesliewehner.bsky.social compare foreign policy changes in 🇨🇱 & 🇸🇪 pointing to the role of policy entrepreneurs and a favorable domestic context. Available #OpenAccess buff.ly/d2sgM4V

🏅In one of our most read articles this week, " 'The Anti-Woke Academy' " Iris B. Segers presents a content analysis of FvD's online presence to highlight the anti-gender nature of the Dutch far right party's rhetoric. 🌟Available #OpenAccess🌟 gendersky polisky buff.ly/SWDdalw

#OpenAccess from @politicsgenderj.bsky.social - Women or Fetuses First? An Experimental Study of the Effectiveness of the Pro-Life Movement’s Use of the “Pro-Woman” Frame - https://cup.org/48qJXVm - @profamandaroberti.bsky.social, Kyle J. Morgan & @katiekrumbholz.bsky.social#OpenAccess #FirstView

📢New issue of #PAG21 is out!📢 In the editorial "The Where, What, and Who of Feminist Foreign Policy", @columbaachilleos.bsky.social, @tonihaastrup.bsky.social, and @thomsonjennifer.bsky.social offer a roadmap to FFP scholarship and practice. buff.ly/hHpXEiG

📢New issue of #PAG21 is out!📢 In "Anti-Feminist Foreign Policy", @sjangevine.bsky.social addresses the relationship between abortion politics and American 🇺🇸 foreign policy, mapping and analyzing its anti-feminist dimension. 🌟Available #OpenAccess🌟 buff.ly/MHw72Rw

📢New issue of #PAG21 is out!📢 In "Formal and Informal Institutions", Petrice R. Flowers uses interview data to understand whether informal institutional rules impede the effectiveness of family policies and women diplomats' work-life balance in Japan 🇯🇵 polisky gendersky buff.ly/4F3lh1z

(1/5) How can scholars write effective response memos that boost their chances of publishing? 📝 Aksel Sundström shares tips for crafting strong responses to reviewers—an often-untaught skill for grad students–in his article published in @politicsgenderj.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1017/S174... #polisky

📢New issue of #PAG21 is out!📢 In "Manning Humanitarian Programs", Amy Gilmore considers humanitarian aids' gendered priorities and further identifies an "impossible bargain" for refugee men in Chad 🇹🇩 🌟Available #OpenAccess🌟 buff.ly/ftavZUg

@pmclaughlin44.bsky.social and I examine public opinion of candidates using campaign funds for childcare. Based on a survey experiment, we argue the policy of allowing parents, particularly mothers, to use campaign funds to pay for childcare may reduce the gender gap in political representation.

Do women in peace processes increase women's representation after conflict? I find that only with women in BOTH Track I and II processes AND an external women's movement supporting do we see long-term gains in women in legislatures. @politicsgenderj.bsky.social - bit.ly/4r5rTHN

📢New issue of #PAG21 is out!📢 In "Militarized Social Reproduction", Julia Palik and Jehan Usop conduct interviews with the BIWAB in the 🇵🇭 to assess how MSR labor can shape women's postwar political trajectories. 🌟Available #OpenAccess🌟 buff.ly/tXuzVC9

📢New issue of #PAG21 is out!📢 In "A Voice at the Table", @kaanstoos.bsky.social tests types of women's participation in peace processes as a new variable affecting women's legislative representation in postconflict states. 🌟Available #OpenAccess🌟 buff.ly/ELACFbc

Our special section on #feministforeignpolicy in @politicsgenderj.bsky.social is currently free to access! @tonihaastrup.bsky.social @columbaachilleos.bsky.social

📢New issue of #PAG21 is out!📢 Our editor @mlkrook.bsky.social introduces our new issue reflecting on the growing (and compelling) research agenda in feminist IR. polisky gendersky buff.ly/mI3FLxb

Excited to share the latest issue of @politicsgenderj.bsky.social featuring research on WPS, gender and diplomacy, feminist foreign policy, and UNSCR 1325. All articles are currently ungated for readers around the world. www.cambridge.org/core/journal... Gendersky Polisky

The full article, entitled "Complex, Conditional, and Contested: Substantive Representation and Representative Claims in French Parliamentary Debates", is available free of charge and Open Access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... @politicsgenderj.bsky.social