National
Feminisms in a Transnational Arena:
The European Union and Gender Politics
April 3-5, 2003
Presenters and Discussants
Feminist
Politics: Why the EU Matters
Myra Marx Ferree, Professor of Sociology and Women's Studies/Acting
Director of the European Union Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Sylvia Walby, University of Leeds
beyond earlier work on gender relations e.g. Gender Transformations
(Routledge 1997), Theorizing Patriarchy (Blackwell 1990) and Patriarchy
at Work (Polity 1986). Further details of current and past work can be
found
on: http://www.leeds.ac.uk/sociology/people/sw.htm
Sonya Michel, Professor of American Studies and
History, University of Maryland, College Park
Borders,
Migration and “Trafficking”
Presenters:
Laura Agustin, Pavis Centre for Cultural Studies,
Open University, UK
Laura Mª Agustín has been formally studying the links between the sex industry and migration since 1997, after working in educación popular in Latin America and with latino migrants abroad. Her doctoral thesis, soon to be a Zed Book, focuses on the discourses and practices of the social sector in Europe trying to help women migrants, with Spain providing the case study. She has many publications in Spanish and English, has been evaluator of projects for the European Commission's Daphne Programme and for the International Labour Organisation, and is moderator of the romance-language e-mail list Industria del Sexo. To contact her: laura@nodo50.org
Solveig Bergman, Department of Sociology, Åbo Akademi University, Finland
Dr Solveig Bergman, researcher and lecturer in sociology,
at Åbo Akademi University in Finland. Publications on women's movements
in Finland and Germany; gender and new social movements in the Nordic countries;
gender and politics; the institutionalisation of Women's Studies in the Nordic
countries.
Joyce Outshoorn, Professor of Women's Studies,Department
of Political Science/Joke Smit Centre for Research in Women's Studies, Leiden
University
Joyce Outshoorn studied political science and contempory history at the University
of Amsterdam and wrote her PhD (De politieke strijd rondom de abortuswetgeving
in Nederland 1964-84, Den Haag 1986) on abortion politics. From 1993-2000
she was Chair of the Netherlands Research School of Women's Studies. She has
been consultant for the Council of Europe and the Dutch government on issues
of political representation and women's public policy. She has published extensively
on women's public policy, abortion politics and more recently on prostitution
and trafficking: She is the editor of The Politics of Prostitution. Women's
movements, democratic states and the globalisation of sex commerce, Cambridge
University Press, forthcoming. She is co-convenor of the Research Network
on Gender Politics and the State.
Discussant:
Marianne Weg,
Organizational Consultant, Equal Opportunity Policy Unit Head, Hesse Department
of Social Welfare, Germany, presently on sabbatical
Marianne Weg, Economist, holds positions in Germany with universities and a research institute, with the federal government and with the state governments of North-Rhine-Westphalia and Hesse in various fields: equal opportunity, environment, labour market. Currently Equal Opportunity Policy Unit Head in the Hesse Department of Social Welfare (state-level government). While on sabbatical 2001/2003 working as an expert and con-sultant for Gender Mainstreaming for governmental and non-governmental organizations. One of the German pioneers in institutionalized equal opportunity policy since 1979.
Discussant:
Responding
to Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault
Marcus Carson is working on his dissertation in Sociology,
which examines EU social policymaking. His research is focused on both policies
connected with or generated by economic integration, as well as those that,
like domestic violence, are largely independent of economic integration. He
is interested in how groups of people that lack conventional "power resources"
can affect significant policy change, and how the conditions under which major
shifts in policy occur are constructed and cultivated. He also has extensive
experience working at the grass roots level as a community organizer, union
legislative director and health reform coalition director.
Carol Hagemann-White, Chair of feminist studies and educational theory, University of Osnabrueck
Carol Hagemann-White has done extensive research on programs
and policies addressing violence against women, as well as publishing widely
on the socialization and construction of gender, women's health issues, and
analysis of equality policy. She heads a team responsible for the research
and evaluation of inter-agency intervention projects at the community and
state level throughout Germany. Currently she is one of the appointed Group
of Experts on implementation and follow-up of the Council of Europe recommendation
"protection of women against violence", and also of the European
Women's Lobby observatory monitoring EU policy in the same field. She is a
co-founder and a coordinator in the European research network on gender, conflict and violence (since 1996). Professor
Hagemann-White's Homepage
Renate Klein, Assistant Professor of Family Studies, University of Maine
Renate Klein (Ph.D., psychology, University of Marburg, Germany)
is Assistant Professor of Family Studies at the University of Maine and founder
/ coordinator of the European Network on Conflict, Gender, and Violence (http://www.umaine.edu/conflict).
She teaches courses in family studies and women's studies and directs a federally
funded project to improve the campus response to violence against women (http://www.umaine.edu/safecampusproject).
Rosa Logar, Domestic Violence Intervention Program
Vienna / European
Network WAVE (Women against Violence Europe)
Rosa Logar is a national and international women's human
rights activist. In 1978, she co-founded the first Austrian women's shelter.
Since 1990 she has lectured at the Schools for Social Work in Vienna and worked
as a trainer at the Police Academy. From 1994-1996, she helped draft the new
Domestic Violence Bill as a member of a interministerial working group. In
1995, she initiated the WAVE-Network (Women Against Violence Europe). Currently,
Dr. Logar is director of the Domestic Violence Intervention Program in Vienna.
Discussant:
Lisa D. Brush, University of Pittsburgh
Gill Allwood, Senior Lecturer in French, Nottingham
Trent University
Gill Allwood is author of French Feminisms (UCL 1998) and co-author with
Khursheed Wadia of Women and Politics in France, 1958-2000 (Routledge 2000).
She is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Contemporary European
Studies and Modern and Contemporary France. Dr.
Allwood's Homepage.
Amy Elman, Kalamazoo College
Amy Elman is Co-director of the Center for European Studies
and Director of the Women's Studies Program at Kalamazoo College. She is editor
of Sexual Politics and the European Union: The New Feminist Challenge (Berghahn
Books 1996). Her articles include "Testing the Limits of European Citizenship:
Ethnic Hatred and Male Violence," National Women's Studies Association
Journal special issue "Gender and Social Policy: Local to Global."
(2001) and "The Limits of Citizenship: Migration, Sex Discrimination
and Same Sex Partners in EU Law," Journal of Common Market Studies (2000).
Her homepage.
Kathrina Zippel, Northeastern University
KATHRINA S. ZIPPEL's research interests are in the areas of gender politics, social movements, the law, and (welfare) states. She is currently working on a book manuscript entitled "Policies Against Sexual Harassment: Gender Equality Policies in Germany, the European Union, and the United States in Comparative Perspective." The book is based on her dissertation - an examination of how institutional arrangements of workplace regulation, gender politics, and prior political and legal traditions shape legal and policy measures to promote gender equality in the workplace. Her research has been supported by fellowships of the European Union Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the European University Institute at Florence, Italy. Before coming to Northeastern, Zippel was a postdoctoral fellow in the European Union Center of New York at Columbia University. She teaches in the areas of gender and (welfare) states, European Union and globalization studies, methodology, and statistics. Recent publications include "Political Opportunity Structure for Demands for Gender Equality in the United States, European Union, and Germany," Journal for Social Movements [Forschungsjournal für Soziale Bewegungen](2001). She has also published research reports "Country Reports on Germany and Austria," in Sexual Harassment at the Workplace in the European Union. Luxembourg: European Commission (1999). An article on the "Implementation of Laws and Policies Against Sexual Harassment in Germany and in the United States," is forthcoming in Policy Studies Review.
Discussant:
Patricia Yancey Martin, Professor of Sociology, Florida State University
Professor Martin specializes in gender and organizations
with a focus on the ways gender is practiced at work. She is completing a
book manuscript about rape victims' experiences in organizations (both mainstream
and rape crisis centers) that explores how organizational frames influence
even well-meaning members to treat victims unresponsively. She has recent
articles on gender bias among judges and lawyers in the U. S. legal system;
barriers to collaboration in scholarship about gender and organizations across
continents, disciplines, and genders; and the dynamic of gendering practices/practicing
gender in organizations. A current project concerns the utility (or not) of
viewing gender as a social institution.
Cathrine Hoskyns, Emeritus
Professor of European Studies, Coventry University, UK
Fiona Williams, University of Leeds
Fiona Williams, Professor of Social Policy and Director of the ESRC Research
Group for the Study of Care, Values and the
Future of Welfare (CAVA), in the Dept of Sociology and Social Policy at the
University of Leeds. Currently involved in a five year research programme
looking at changes in parenting and partnering in the UK. Has published widely
on gender, race,
ethnicity and social policy, and is developing new research on the relationship
between migration, care and welfare, with a specific focus on the increased
employment of migrant women as private child carers in different welfare regimes
in Europe.
www.leeds.ac.uk/cava
Alison Woodward, Free University of Brussels (VUB)
ALISON WOODWARD is Professor and Chair of the International Affairs and Politics
Program of Vesalius College at the Free University of Brussels (VUB) and co-founder
of the Center for Women's Studies. In Spring 2003 she is a guest professor
at the College of Urban, Labor and Metropolitan Affairs of Wayne State University
in Michigan. Her current research is on transnational social movements and
public policy and on participation in European governance. Recent publications
include Inclusions and Exclusions in European Societies (edited with Martin
Kohli) Routledge 2001 and Going for Gender Balance (Council of Europe 2002).
Liz Holzer, University of Wisconsin- Madison
Elizabeth Holzer received her Masters in sociology from the
University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research focuses on women's rights activism
and the law in the European Union.
Sally Kenney, Professor of Public Affairs and Law/ Director, Center on Women and Public Policy Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs,University of Minnesota. Professor Kenney's work focuses on comparative employment discrimination law (particularly pregnancy discrimination), judicial selection, courts, and campaigns to get more women on the bench. Professor Kenney's Homepage.
Angelika von Wahl, Departments of Political Science and International
Relations,San Francisco State University
Angelika von Wahl is an Assistant Professor and author of Equal Employment
Regimes (in German: Gleichstellungsregime, Leske+Budrich 1999). Her comparative
research focuses on the study of public policy in Western Europe, especially
Germany and the US. in regards to gender and employment. She has also various
published articles in legal journals on the development of affirmative action
and quotas in the US and Germany and has published a chapter on the EU and
the emergence of a European equal employment regime. She is currently starting
a new project on human rights abuse and reparations.
Discussant:
Catherine Albiston, University of Wisconsin Law
School
Feminists
Using Movements, Protest and Political Mobilization
Presenters:
Amy Mazur, Department of Political Science, Washington State University
Amy Mazur is Associate Professor in the at Washington State University. Her publications include: Comparative State Feminism (Sage, 1995) (editor, with Dorothy McBride Stetson); Gender Bias and the State: Symbolic Reform at Work in Fifth Republic France (Pittsburgh University Press, 1995); State Feminism, Women's Movement, and Job Training: Making Democracies Work in the Global Economy (Routledge, 2001) (editor); and Theorizing Feminist Policy (Oxford , 2002). She has also published articles in Political Research Quarterly, French Politics and Society, Policy Studies Journal, West European Politics, European Journal of Political Research, Contemporary French Civilization, and Review of Policy Research. She is co-convener of the Research Network on Gender Politics and the State.
Claudia Neusüss, P
Tatiana Pudrovska, Department of Sociology, University of Maryland
Ms. Pudrovska is a graduate student at the Department of Sociology, University of Maryland-College Park focusing on Web discourse of transnational feminism. For her dissertation research, she is conducting a quantitative content analysis of feminist websites. She is also working on mapping networks of websites of transnational feminist organizations.
Silke Roth, Sociology Department University of
Pennsylvania
Silke Roth, DAAD Visiting Assistant Professor (Ph.D., 1997,
University of Connecticut). Areas of teaching and research: gender, socialmovements
(in particular women's and labor movements), cultural sociology, political
sociology, media and public sphere. Forthcoming book "Building Movement
Bridges: The Coalition of Labor Union Women" (Greenwood 2003), currently
coediting a book on European Women's Movements with Ingrid Miethe. Professor
Roth's Homepage.
Discussant :
Carol Mueller, Arizona State University