The Sage International Encyclopedia of Politics and Gender

Lia K. Roberts

• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Year: 2025
• Print ISBN: 9781071918487
• eBook ISBN: 9781071918517
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Global Politics
• Index: Politics & International Relations

This four-volume encyclopedia set is organized to allow the reader to explore gender and politics from an updated interdisciplinary, intersectional, and global perspective.  The organization format will be an A-Z approach of approximately 500-600 entries (with entries ranging in word count from 1,500-3,000 words, with some entries on foundational topics at around 5,000). Coverage will examine both the role gender plays within the realm of politics (political participation, leadership, etc.) as well as policies that are based in gender (abortion and reproductive policies, transgender rights, etc.).

Foundational topics will include entries such as "International Security and Gender," which will introduce gender and war, human trafficking, gender and militarism, and women and terrorism; and, "International Relations and Gender," which will introduce topics such as gender mainstreaming, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), and  eco-feminism. A "Comparative Politics" foundational entry will focus on research areas surrounding political representation and participation, legislative processes, and law such as: gender quotas, gender gap in political participation and leadership, intersectionality (and barriers in representation and leadership), Ni Unos Menos/Not One Less Movement (recent significant activist movements), and transgender specific law. Concepts connected to feminist and queer theory as applied in regional studies will also be covered.  For example, "marianismo" or the connection between Catholicism and gender roles in Latin American and Latinx communities, Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) voters and political mobilization, and LGBQTIA leaders and social movements will be included. 

This encyclopedia will be essential for any undergraduate or graduate course on gender studies (in gender studies programs as well as sociology, political science, history or other related programs/disciplines), gender and politics, international relations and gender or area specific courses such as Gender and Latin American Politics or Gender and African Studies.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Editorial Board
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• List of Entries
• About the Editors
• List of Contributors
• Introduction
• Ableism
• Abolition Feminism
• Abortion Access in the United States
• Adoption Law
• Adoption, Foster Care, and Gender
• Adultery Laws
• Affirmative Action
• Agriculture and Food Systems, Gender Gap in
• Anti-Gender Movement
• Anti-LGBTQIA+ Laws in the United States
• Anti-LGBTQIA+ Laws
• Anti-Miscegenation Laws
• Arab Spring
• Armed Conflict and Gender
• Asylum-Seeking Individuals
• Authoritarianism and Women’s Rights in Saudi Arabia
• Autism in Women and Girls
• Bathroom Bills
• Big Tech and Gender
• Birth Control Access
• Black Feminist Theory
• Black Women as Leaders in Public Health
• Black Women’s Resistance to Slavery
• Bodies and Politics
• Borders, Borderlands, and Gender
• Buddhism and Gender
• Campaigns and Political Communication
• Candidates, Media Effects, and Gender
• Cash Transfers, Conditional and Unconditional
• Catholicism and Gender
• Chicanas and Latinas and Education in the United States
• Child Labor
• Child Marriage
• Children’s Rights
• Christian Nationalism in the United States
• Christianity and Gender
• Christianity, Islam, and Judaism
• Citizenship and Gender
• Civil Resistance
• Climate Change and Gender
• Climate Policy and Gender Equality
• Communism and Gender
• Conservative Constructions of Gender Online
• Convention for the Suppression of Traffic in Persons and the Exploitation of Prostitution of Others
• Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women
• Convention on the Political Rights of Women
• Conversion Therapy and Conversion Therapy Bans in the United States
• Counterterrorism, the Media, and Gender
• COVID-19, Health Behavior, and Gender
• Critical Femininities
• Critical Masculinity Studies
• Critical Race Theory
• Cultural Barriers to LGBTQIA+ Individuals in Politics
• Cultural Barriers to Women in Politics
• Cyberharassment
• Decentralized Currency and Gender
• Decolonial Theory in International Relations
• Decolonizing Gender
• Democracy, Democratic Backsliding, and Gender
• Descriptive Representation
• Detransitioning
• Digital Activism and Gender
• Digital Divide and Gender
• Digital Extremism and the Manosphere
• Disability Inclusion
• Disability Rights Movement
• Disability Studies and Education
• Discrimination Against LGBTQ+ People in the U.S. Public Sector
• Disinformation and Gender
• Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Organizations
• Divorce Law in the United States
• Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization
• Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell
• Don’t Say Gay Bills
• Ecofeminism
• Economic Empowerment and Women
• Economic Rights and Gender
• Education and Gender in the United States
• Educational Disparities and Gender
• Election Violence and Gender
• Emotional Labor
• Entrepreneurship and Gender
• Equal Rights Amendment
• Equity and Equality
• Ethnonationalism and Gender
• Eugenics
• External Intervention and Gender in the Sahel
• Extractivism and Gender
• Extremism and Countering Violent Extremism
• Familial Trafficking and Gender
• Female Genital Mutilation
• Female STEM Academics in Japan
• Female Suicide Bombers
• Femicide
• Feminism and Gender in Education for Democracy
• Feminism, Waves of
• Feminist Disability Studies
• Feminist Foreign Policy
• Feminist Governance
• Feminist Institutionalism
• Feminist International Relations
• Feminist Methodologies
• Feminist Organization Theory
• Feminist Parliamentary Diplomacy
• Feminist Political Ecology
• Feminist Political Economy and Health
• Feminist Security Studies
• Feminist Theory
• Femme Theory and Femmephobia
• Finance and Gender
• First Ladies and Leadership
• Food Security and Gender
• Forced Displacement and Gender-Based Violence
• Forced Sterilization
• Foreign Aid and Gender
• Gender Analysis
• Gender and Development
• Gender Bias
• Gender Binary
• Gender Expression
• Gender Gap in Wages
• Gender Hierarchy
• Gender Identity
• Gender Mainstreaming
• Gender Nonconformity
• Gender Pain Gap
• Gender Quotas in Political Representation
• Gender Regimes
• Gender-Role Stereotypes in Political Life
• Gender Roles and Gender Identities
• Gender Roles in Household Decision-Making
• Gender Solidarity
• Gender-Affirming Health Care
• Gender-Based Violence
• Gender-Based Violence and Digital Media
• Gendered Discourses
• Gendered Honor Codes
• Gendered Leadership Outcomes
• Gendered Political Violence
• Gender-Inclusive Language
• Gender-Sensitive Parliaments
• Genderwashing
• Global Citizenship Education
• Global Gender Gap Index
• Global Health and Gender Norms
• Globalization and Gender Issues
• Globalization of Security in International Relations and Gender
• Harassment
• #MeToo Movement
• Hate Crimes
• Hate Speech: Social Media and Online
• Heteronormativity
• Hijab Bans
• Hinduism and Gender
• HIV/AIDS Activism by LGBTQIA+ Activists
• Humanitarian Intervention
• Income Security
• Indigenous Feminism
• Indigenous Resilience and Resistance in Brazil
• Indigenous Women’s Rights
• Inequality
• Informal Workers
• Inheritance Laws
• International Conflict and Women
• International Human Trafficking
• International Monetary Fund and Gender
• International Perspectives: Human Rights Norms and Gender
• International Perspectives: Social and Political Movements
• International Perspectives: Elected and Appointed Officials
• International Political Economy and Gender
• International Security and Women
• International Student Career Pathways and Higher Education in the United States
• Internationalization Within Higher Education
• Intersectional Environmentalism
• Intersectionality and Justice
• Intersectionality and Representation
• Intersex Individuals
• Intersex Regulation and Legislation
• Intimate Partner Violence Against Women and LGBTQIA+ Individuals
• Involuntary Celibates
• Islam and Gender
• Islam, Terrorism, and Politics
• Istanbul Convention
• Labor Markets and Gender
• Law Enforcement Violence Against LGBTQIA+ Individuals
• Law Enforcement Violence Against Men
• Law Enforcement Violence Against Women
• Leadership and Gender in Business and Organizations
• Legal Studies and Gender
• LGBT and Queer Studies Programs
• LGBTQIA+ and Queer Studies in International Relations
• LGBTQ+ Leadership
• LGBTQIA+ Assimilation and Liberation
• LGBTQIA+ Elected Officials
• LGBTQIA+ Organizations
• LGBTQIA+ Political Organizations
• LGBTQIA+ Refugees and Asylum-Seeking Individuals
• LGBTQIA+ Rights
• LGBTQIA+ Runaway Youth Trafficking
• LGBTQIA+ Social Movements
• Literacy and Gender
• Lobbying
• Machismo
• Marital Rape
• Marriage Laws
• Masculinities
• Masculinities and International Security
• Masculinities in the Military
• Masculinity Studies and the Middle East and North Africa
• Maternal Health
• Maternal Mortality and Morbidity
• Maternity Leave
• Matriliny
• Media and Gender
• Medical Misogyny
• Medical Research and Gender Bias
• Menstrual Activism
• Menstrual Health Policies
• Menstrual Studies
• Mental Health and Gender Disparities
• Mental Health Legislation
• Mexico City Policy
• Microfinance
• Migration and Gender
• Militarism and Gender
• Militarized Marriages
• Military, LGBTQIA+ Individuals in
• Military, Women in the
• Minors and Immigration
• Miscarriage
• Nationalism and Gender
• Neoliberalism and Gender
• Nonviolence and Gender
• Online Radicalization and Gender
• Parental Leave
• Passing and Stealth
• Paths to Leadership for Women
• Patriarchy
• Peace and Conflict Education
• Peace Building and Gender
• Pension Reform
• Period Tax
• Personal Is Political
• Physical Autonomy
• Pink Tax
• Pinkwashing
• Policy and Policy Processes in Higher Education
• Political Ethnography and Gender
• Political Participation, Gender Gap in
• Political Parties and Gender
• Politics of Childbirth
• Politics of Motherhood
• Polygamy
• Populism and Gender
• Pornography and Pornography Laws
• Postcolonial Feminism and Welfare Reform
• Postconflict and Women
• Post–Soviet Russia and Women
• Power and Gender
• Presidency and Gender, The
• Prison and Gender
• Pro-Life Movement
• Property and Land Rights
• Protections for Victims of Sexual and Gender-Based Violence
• Protest Politics
• Public Attitudes Toward Women Political Leaders
• Queer Border Mobility in Education
• Queer Migration
• Queer Muslim Women
• Queer Spaces
• Queer Theory
• Radical Feminism
• Rape as a War Crime
• Religious Nationalism
• Reproductive Autonomy
• Reproductive Health
• Reproductive Justice
• Reproductive Rights
• Revolutions and Gender
• Right to Privacy
• Right-Wing Extremism and Gender in the United States
• Right-Wing Terrorism and Gender in the United States
• Same-Sex Marriage
• School Discipline and Gender Expansive Youth
• Sex and Gender
• Sex Outside of Marriage, Legal Treatment of
• Sex Trafficking
• Sex Work
• Sex Worker Rights Movement
• Sex-Selective Abortion
• Sexual Harassment
• Sexual Violence
• Sexualization
• Single Parents
• Social Media Activism
• Socialist Feminism
• State Feminism
• Statelessness and Gender Discrimination
• Stonewall Uprising
• Suffrage and Abolition
• Surveillance, Censorship, and Digital Media
• Sustainable Development Goals and Gender
• Technology Industry, Gender Discrimination in the
• Temporary Islamic Marriage
• Terrorism and Children
• Terrorism and Gender
• Time Poverty
• Trad Wives
• Transgender and Nonbinary Political Leaders
• Transgender Exclusion in Sports
• Transgender Individuals
• Transgender Liberation Movement
• Transnational Feminisms
• Two Spirit Identity
• U.S. Foreign Policy and Gender
• U.S.–Mexico Border and Gender
• Undocumented Students and Higher Education Access
• Undocumented Workers
• United Nations and Gender Party
• United Nations Conference On Women
• United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325
• United Nations Women
• Unpaid Labor
• Urbanization and Gender
• Violence Against Men and Boys
• Violence Against Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Individuals
• Violence Against Women Act
• Violence Against Women and Girls
• Water Rights and Access
• Women and Gender Studies, History of
• Women in Development
• Women in Diplomacy
• Women’s International Nongovernmental Organizations
• Women’s Political Empowerment Programs
• Women’s Empowerment
• Women’s March
• Women’s Political Agency
• Women’s Rights as Human Rights
• Women Suffrage
• World Bank, Global Governance, and Gender
• Index