Women, gender, and politics: an introduction / Mona Lena Krook and Sarah Childs
Part I: Women and social movements. Mobilization without emancipation? Women's interests, the state, and revolution in Nicaragua / Maxine Molyneux ; Beyond compare? Women's movements in comparative perspective / Karen Beckwith ; Women's movements and democratic transition in Chile, Brazil, East Germany, and Poland / Lisa Baldez ; Protest moves inside institutions / Mary Fainsod Katzenstein ; Do interest groups represent the disadvantaged? Advocacy at the intersections of race, class, and gender / Dara Z. Strolovitch ; Translating the global: effects of transnational organizing on local feminist discourses and practices in Latin America / Sonia E. Alvarez ; Cross-regional trends in female terrorism / Karla J. Cunningham
Part II: Women and political parties. The dynamics of gender and party / Joni Lovenduski ; Theorizing feminist strategy and party responsiveness / Lisa Young ; Building a base: women in local party politics / Jo Freeman ; Women's political representation in Sweden: discursive politics and institutional presence / Diane Sainsbury ; The problem with patronage: constraints on women's political effectiveness in Uganda / Anne Marie Goetz ; Feminist political organization in Iceland: some reflections on the experience of Kwenna Frambothid / Lena Dominelli and Gudrun Jonsdottir
Part III: Women, gender, and elections. The developmental theory of the gender gap: women's and men's voting behavior in global perspective / Ronald Inglehart and Pippa Norris ; Puzzles in political recruitment / Pippa Norris and Joni Lovenduski ; Entering the arena? Gender and the decision to run for office / Richard L. Fox and Jennifer L. Lawless ; Party elites and women candidates: the shape of bias / David Niven ; Women's representation in parliament: the role of political parties / Miki Caul ; Explaining women's legislative representation in Sub-Saharan Africa / Mi Yung Yoon ; Quotas as a 'fast track' to equal representation for women: why Scandinavia is no longer the model / Drude Dahlerup and Lenita Freidenvall
Part IV: Women, gender, and political representations. Quotas for women / Anne Phillips ; Representation and social perspective / Iris Marion Young ; Should blacks represent blacks and women represent women? A contingent 'yes' / Jane Mansbridge ; Preferable descriptive representatives: will just any woman, black, or Latino do? / Suzanne Dovi ; From a small to a large minority: women in Scandinavian politics / Drude Dahlerup ; Beyond bodies: institutional sources of representation for women in democratic policymaking / S. Laurel Weldon
Part V: Women, gender, and social policies. Sex, gender, and leadership in the representation of women / Karin L. Tamerius ; Congressional enactments of race-gender: toward a theory of raced-gendered institutions / Mary Hawkesworth ; Taking problems apart / Carol Lee Bacchi ; Sex and the state in Latin America / Mala Htun ; Beyond the difference versus equality policy debate: postsuffrage feminism, citizenship, and the quest for a feminist welfare state / Wendy Sarvasy ; Is mainstreaming Transformative? Theorizing mainstreaming in the context of diversity and deliberation / Judith Squires
Part VI: Women, gender, and the state. The liberal state / Catharine A. MacKinnon ; Gender and the state: theories and debates / Johanna Kantola ; Gender in the welfare state / Ann Orloff ; Interacting with the state: feminist Strategies and political opportunities / Louise Chappell ; Introduction to comparative state feminism / Dorothy McBride Stetson and Amy G. Mazur ; State feminism or party feminism? Feminist politics and the Spanish Institute of Women / Monica Threlfall ; When power relocates: interactive changes in women's movements and states / Lee Ann Banaszak, Karen Beckwith, and Dieter Rucht.