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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Images -- Political Worlds of Women: Introduction -- Strategies of Political Analysis -- Comparative Assessment -- Multilevel Analysis -- Feminist Theorizing in Context -- Tracing Historical Change -- Expanding Political Frames -- From Individual and Institutional Analysis to Structures of Oppression -- Chapter Overview -- I. Political Leadership, Gendered Institutions, and the Politics of Exclusion -- Women in Executive Offices -- Women in National Legislatures -- Explaining Women's Continuing Absence -- Gendered Institutions and the Politics of Exclusion: Historical Precedents -- Body Politics in the American and French Revolutions -- The Consolidation of Separate Spheres -- Political Parties and the Politics of Exclusion: Contemporary Practices -- Conclusion -- II. From Demography to Development: Women's Worlds and the Politics of Knowledge -- Global Gender Demographics -- Life Expectancy -- Gender Ratios -- Marriage and Divorce -- Pregnancy and Childbearing -- Women's Labor -- Migration -- War and Displacement -- Development -- Modernization Theory as Policy Practice -- Gender and Gendering in Development Policies -- Women and Development: Reproduction and "Welfare" -- Women in Development: The Virtues of Waged Labor in the Formal Sector -- Gender and Development -- Sustainable Development -- Conclusion -- III. Producing Raced-Gendered Citizens -- Liberty, Equality, and Citizenship: Classical Liberal Presumptions -- The Political Demarcation of Public and Private Spheres -- Producing Raced-Gendered Citizens -- Birthright and Its Suspension -- Miscegenation Laws: Crafting the Complexion of Citizens -- Immigration -- The Discursive Production of Raced-Gendered Citizens -- Welfare Policy -- Biopower -- Conclusion

Celeste Montoya's Global to Grassroots: The European Union, Transnational Advocacy, and Combating Violence Against Women addresses a pressing problem—violence against women—by bringing a transnational perspective to EU politics. We have thus decided to seek comments on the book from an Eastern European feminist scholar (Oana Băluţă) and a U.S. feminist scholar (Mary Hawkesworth). —Jeffrey C. Isaac

A review essay covering a book by Celeste Montoya, From Global to Grassroots: The European Union, Transnational Advocacy, and Combating Violence against Women (2013).

The following Critical Exchange originated as a roundtable exchange at the Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science Association in 2012. We invited three scholars to comment on Mary Hawkesworth's important new book from the vantage points of both feminist theory and scholarship/activism. Their commentaries are followed by a response from Hawkesworth. Adapted from the source document.

Although feminist theory and critical race theory engage questions about human nature and subjectivity, criteria of legitimacy, philosophies of history, structures of power, forms of social and communal organization; and characteristics of a just polity, questions that are central concerns of political theorists, these distinctive theoretical approaches are often ignored, neglected, or marginalized within the subfield of political theory. This article examines the dimensions, causes, and political implications of such exclusion.