Recognising Gender: A Response to Gonzalez Ginocchio, Hindmoor and Stanley
| Author | Fran Amery |
| Published date | 01 February 2022 |
| Date | 01 February 2022 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1177/1478929921989205 |
| Subject Matter | Pluralism and Political Studies in the UK |
https://doi.org/10.1177/1478929921989205
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2022, Vol. 20(1) 30 –32
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Recognising Gender: A
Response to Gonzalez
Ginocchio, Hindmoor and
Stanley
Fran Amery
Abstract
A response to Pluralism and Political Studies in the UK: A Pilot Study into Who Gets What in the
Discipline by Brenda Gonzalez Ginocchio, Andrew Hindmoor and Liam Stanley.
Keywords
pluralism, gender, political studies
Accepted: 18 December 2020
This response speaks primarily to the status of gender research in political studies,
although there is an inevitable link here with the number of women in the discipline, as
those researching and teaching in the gender subdiscipline are, as Gonzalez Ginocchio
et al. note, overwhelmingly likely to be women. Gonzalez Ginocchio et al.’s findings
align with a broad international literature which has found that gender and feminist per-
spectives have been less readily integrated into political studies than other social science
disciplines, despite the major contributions feminist theory has made to understandings of
power and political institutions (Baker, 2019). The same literature has uncovered a per-
sistent gender gap in publication patterns and gender bias in citation practices (Costa and
Sawer, 2019). Yet sweeping accounts of the ‘state of the discipline’ can overlook how the
discipline is constituted in terms of institutions and individual departments, their prac-
tices around, for example, recruitment and the Research Excellence Framework (REF),
and local ideas about what constitute ‘priority areas’ for teaching and research.
Gonzalez Ginocchio et al. recount the pluralist history of the discipline, with a focus
on the Political Studies Association (PSA) and the development of an ‘agree-to-disagree
consensus’. Following their findings regarding the composition of the departments sur-
veyed, we might also ask how dynamics at the level of the individual institution or
Department of Politics, Languages and International Studies, University of Bath, UK
Corresponding author:
Fran Amery, Department of Politics, Languages and International Studies, University of Bath, Bath BA2 7AY, UK.
Email: f.c.amery@bath.ac.uk
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