Avraham Ebenstein (HUJ): Patrilocality and Missing Women. Diane Marie Amann (Georgia): The Post-Postcolonial Woman or Child. Vasuki Nesiah (NYU): Feminism as Counter-terrorism: The Seduction of Power. Daniel L. Hicks (Oklahoma), Joan Hamory Hicks (UC-Berkeley), and Beatriz A. Maldonado (Charleston): Are Female Politicians More Responsive to International Crises? Cecilia Garcia-Penalosa and Maty Konte (Aix-Marseille): Why are Women Less Democratic than Men? Evidence from Sub-Saharan African Countries. Timothy J. Besley (LSE), Olle Folke (Columbia), Torsten Persson (Stockholm), and Johanna Rickne (IFN): Gender Quotas and the Crisis of the Mediocre Man: Theory and Evidence from Sweden. Serena Kutchinsky on how violence against women is Europe’s secret shame. Intimacy that kills: A Pakistani woman brutally murdered by her own family is just one of countless women around the world abused — or worse — by so-called “loved ones”. What do Chinese women want? Lu-Hai Liang investigates. Does Western pressure for gender equality help? Sarah Bush and Amaney Jamal investigate. The failures of the new feminism: Germaine Greer reviews The Vagenda by Holly Baxter and Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett and Everyday Sexism by Laura Bates. Latin lessons in dressing: Bachelet and Rousseff seem to have adopted the Angela Merkel approach to dressing — adopt a uniform. Jude Browne on corporate boards, quotas for women and political theory. Kathleen Geier, Kate Bahn, Joelle Gamble, Zillah Eisenstein and Heather Boushey on how gender changes Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century. You can download Taxation and Gender Equity: A Comparative Analysis of Direct and Indirect Taxes in Developing and Developed Countries, ed. Caren Grown and Imraan Valodia (2010).
