339 - Section on Sociology of Sex and Gender. Gender, Politics, and Power

Session Submission Type: Paper Session 100min

Description

The papers in this session address in differing ways the gendered nature of the state globally. Four specific topics are discussed: 1) the intersection of race and gender in Burundi and Vietnam state politics; 2) the forced disappearance of young men in Libya as a gendered state practice; 3) how "feminicidio" became the language of state responsibility for gendered violence in Mexico; and reconceptualizing a feminist theory of the state.

Sub Unit

• Section on Sociology of Sex and Gender / Gender, Politics, and Power

Presider

• James W. Messerschmidt

Individual Presentations

• Double-Duty Politics: How Electing Ethnic Minority Women Can Keep Ethnic Majority Men in Power - Melanie M. Hughes, University of Pittsburgh

• Forced Disappearance as a Gendered Form of State Violence - Amina Zarrugh, Texas Christian University

• How Feminicidio Became the Language of State Responsibility in Mexico - Outstanding - Upper 10% Garcia del Moral, University of Guelph

• Revisiting the Feminist Theory of the State - Cinthya Johanna Guzman, University of Toronto

Discussant

• Catherine I. Bolzendahl, University of California, Irvine