Gender Mainstreaming and Global Governance

This article seeks to explain the variable implementation of gender mainstreaming as a `policy frame' over time and across various international organisations (I.O.s). In the years since the U.N. Fourth World Women's Conference in Beijing (1995),mainstreaming has been endorsed and adopted by a wide range of international organisations, and we compare the adoption and implementation of mainstreaming in four specific I.O.s: the World Bank, the United Nations Development Programme, the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe, and the European Union. The rhetorical acceptance of mainstreaming by various international organisations, however, obscures considerable variation in both the timing and the nature of the mainstreaming process within and among organisations. This variation, in turn, can be explained in terms of the categories of political opportunity, mobilising structures and strategic framing, which have been put forward by social movement theorists.     

Governance and land use decision-making in Russian cities and regions

Using results of an elite survey from the late 1990s, this study examines various arguments to explain the roots of the slow pace of land marketisation in Russia. These include three arguments that focus in turn on structural impediments, resource generation opportunities provided by land ownership, and domineering local governments. The study also analyses two other explanations of spatial differences: the impact of local economic and demographic structure and urban governance. Findings offer some support for each of the dominant approaches but little evidence to support the importance of local economic structure. However, an analysis of governance and social practices are found to be useful in highlighting the relationship between beliefs, practices, and land allocation.     

Dilemmas of Divorce: How Secessionist Identities Cut Both Ways

This paper develops and illustrates a novel theoretical explanation for maximal revisionist challenges to the status quo. I argue that some rising great powers become dissatisfied with the normative and constitutive structure of the status quo and therefore incapable of or unwilling to orient themselves toward reassurance, not because of increasing capabilities but rather due to the domestic political effects produced by perceptions of status immobility—the idea that the status quo is unable to accommodate the rising state's claims to increased status and prestige. I illustrate the argument by showing that Japan's increasing revisionism after 1931 can in large part be explained by widespread perceptions of status immobility linked to Japanese understandings of the role of race in the maintenance of the Western-dominated status hierarchy.     

At Home with Virginia Woolf

Neither Prudes nor Radicals

Lucy Bland, Banishing the Beast Sexuality and the Early Feminists, New York: The New Press, 1995.

From the Sex War to the Cold War

Carl Rollyson, Rebecca West A Saga of the Century, London: Hodder &; Stoughton, 1995, £20.

Re‐Memorying Modernism

Carol Watts, Dorothy Richardson, Writers and Their Works, Northcote House, 1995, £6.99.

Helen Carr, Jean Rhys, Writers and their Works, Northcote House, 1996, £7.99.

Past Children, Past Selves

Carolyn Steedman, Strange Dislocations. Childhood and the Idea of Human Interiority 1780–1930, London: Virago Press, 1995.

A Bard for All Seasons

Kate Chedgzoy, Shakespeare's Queer Children: Sexual Politics and Contemporary Culture, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1995, £12.99 (pbk.).

What Did You Do in the War, Mummy?

Pro Femina. A Review for Women's Writing and Culture, Belgrade: Radio B92.

The Threewomen of Mina Loy

Carolyn Burke, Becoming Modern: The Life of Mina Loy, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $35.

Roger L. Conover (ed.), The Lost Lunar Baedeker. Poems of Mina Loy, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $22.

’As Vulnerable as the Flesh of Roses‘

Doris Lessing, Love, Again, London: HarperCollins/Flamingo, 1996.

Romantic Riches

Mary Shelley, The Novels and Selected Works, 8 vols., general ed. Nora Crook, with Pamela Clemit, consulting ed. Betty T. Bennett, London: Pickering and Chatto, 1996.

Vol. 1: Frankenstein, ed. Nora Crook, introd. Betty T. Bennett

Vol. 2: Matilda, Dramas, Reviews and Essays, Prefaces and Notes, ed. Pamela Clemit

Vol. 3: Valperga, ed. Nora Crook

Vol. 4: The Last Man, ed. Jane Blumberg with Nora Crook

Vol. 5: The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck, ed. Doucet Devin Fischer

Vol. 6: Lodore, ed. Fiona Stafford

Vol. 7: Falkner, ed. Pamela Clemit

Vol. 8: Travel Writing, ed. Jeanne Moskal     

Engendering social and environmental safeguards in REDD+: lessons from feminist and development research

Drawing on feminist and development literature, this paper suggests several important lessons and considerations for building equitable approaches to REDD+. Specifically, we illustrate the conceptual and practical significance of women’s participation for achieving the goals of REDD+as well as the limits and opportunities for gendering participation in REDD+. We argue that the standing debates over how and in what context gender becomes instrumentalised, technicalised or institutionalised in development provide important cautionary tales for the implementation and reporting of REDD+safeguards. By doing so, this paper contributes to the growing literature on gender, development, natural resource management and REDD+.     

Horsing around: Using equine facilitated learning to support the development of social-emotional competence of students at risk of school failure

The social-emotional issues some students experience can place them at risk of school failure. Traditional methods of support can be ineffective or not sustainable and new alternative approaches need to be attempted to support social-emotional competency, school engagement, and success for students at risk. This article discusses preliminary outcomes of an equine facilitated learning (EFL) program specifically designed to focus on using horses to improve the resilience and social-emotional competency in students perceived as “at risk” of school failure. This qualitative exploratory study used interviews and observations over a six month period to listen to the voices of the students themselves about their experiences of EFL. Initial findings from the pilot study suggest that EFL programs can be a novel and motivating way to promote resilience training and social-emotional development of students at risk of failure and, in turn, improve their level of engagement and connection with school environments.     

Do Anti-Bullying Laws Reduce In-School Victimization,Fear-based Absenteeism,and Suicidality for Lesbian,Gay, Bisexual,and Questioning Youth?

Lesbian, gay, and bisexual youth are at heightened risk for bullying and other forms of in-school victimization. Anti-bullying laws are a potential policy mechanism for addressing this issue, yet there has been little investigation of the impact of such policies for this population using generalizable samples or quasi-experimental designs. The current study explores whether the presence of state anti-bullying laws predicts lower likelihood of bullying victimization, fear-based absenteeism, in-school threats or injury with a weapon, and suicidality for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and questioning high school students in the United States. Based on Youth Risk Behavior Survey data across 22 states from 2005–2015, coupled with data about the presence of general and enumerated anti-bullying laws that include sexual orientation as a protected class, this study analyzes this topic using a quasi-experimental design (linear difference-in-difference models). The results indicate that lesbian, gay, bisexual, and questioning youth (particularly boys aged 15 or younger) experienced less bullying victimization in states with general or enumerated anti-bullying laws. There was modest evidence of a reduction in fear-based absenteeism among boys in states with such laws. However, there was little evidence of a relationship between such policies and in-school threats or injuries or suicidality. Further, lesbian, bisexual, and questioning girls’ likelihood of victimization, absenteeism, or suicidality was generally not related to the presence of anti-bullying laws. The results suggest that general and enumerated anti-bullying laws may help reduce bullying victimization for gay, bisexual, and questioning boys.