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Theorizing Feminist Policy
Theorizing Feminist Policy avoids the usual clash between feminist analysis and non-feminist social science in mapping out the new field of feminist comparative policy. Instead, it intersects empirical feminist policy analysis with non-feminist policy studies to define and contribute to this new and emerging field of study. Consulting a wide sweep of empirical and theoretical work, the book first defines Feminist Comparative Policy showing how it dialogs with the adjacent non-feminist areas of Comparative Public Policy, Comparative Politics, and Public Policy Studies. It then seeks then to strengthen one of the weakest links of this new area - the study of explicitly feminist government action. In the remaining chapters, the books defines feminist policy as a separate sector, with eight sub sectors. It develops a qualitative and comparative framework for analysing the profiles and styles of feminist policy in post industrial democracies and uses the framework to examine twenty
seven different cases of feminist policy formation across thirteen different countries.
seven different cases of feminist policy formation across thirteen different countries.
282 pages, Paperback
First published March 1, 1902
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April 4, 2011
Background:
This was required course text for a combined undergraduate/graduate seminar on Gender and Public Policy. Along with this text, there was Bacchi's Women, policy, and politics (1999), various journal articles and photocopied chapters from other books.
My review:
I really was not a fan of this text. Mazur attempts to gather the works on feminist policy and define them as a policy area with 8 sub-areas of study. However, at times, these border on rather bizarre titles: for example one of the sub-areas is called 'blueprint' which refers to general frameworks that define a group (particularly women's groups or feminist groups). Moreover, she comes up with a scheme for scoring policy efforts to assess how successful they were in meeting 'feminist criteria.' This scoring scheme was really odd and at times seemed rather arbitrary. I found it a pretty frustrating text to read as most of the chapters are short and she crams in 4 'case studies' that aren't very in-depth.
I do think it's an important text in the area of gender and public policy, particularly as I have read some journal articles that cite to the model Mazur proposes and use it for their analysis. Nevertheless, it's not something I would read merely for the pleasure of it (as it wasn't all that well-done).
This was required course text for a combined undergraduate/graduate seminar on Gender and Public Policy. Along with this text, there was Bacchi's Women, policy, and politics (1999), various journal articles and photocopied chapters from other books.
My review:
I really was not a fan of this text. Mazur attempts to gather the works on feminist policy and define them as a policy area with 8 sub-areas of study. However, at times, these border on rather bizarre titles: for example one of the sub-areas is called 'blueprint' which refers to general frameworks that define a group (particularly women's groups or feminist groups). Moreover, she comes up with a scheme for scoring policy efforts to assess how successful they were in meeting 'feminist criteria.' This scoring scheme was really odd and at times seemed rather arbitrary. I found it a pretty frustrating text to read as most of the chapters are short and she crams in 4 'case studies' that aren't very in-depth.
I do think it's an important text in the area of gender and public policy, particularly as I have read some journal articles that cite to the model Mazur proposes and use it for their analysis. Nevertheless, it's not something I would read merely for the pleasure of it (as it wasn't all that well-done).
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