Nordic Political Science Association - conference workshop

Panel 22. Gender, Politics and Democracy

Over the past decades, there has been a tremendous growth in the scholarship on gender and politics in local, national, and international politics. A similar scholarly focus on democracy and citizenship from a gender perspective has gained prominence and shed light on concepts such as inclusion and exclusion. More recently, postcolonial feminism (Lewis and Mills, 2003) and an analytical focus of intersectionality (Crenshaw 1989, 1991) adds to the complexity with a range of difference-making categories such as for example age, class, ethnicity/race, religious believes and sexual identities. These studies have advanced our knowledge of the complex ways in which gender shapes and interacts with political institutions, processes, policies and outcomes, but there are indeed still gaps in research regarding how gender, politics and democracy are linked. For instance, we know less about how aspects related to gender, politics and democracy are affected by the…