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2011     Women, work & politics : the political economy of gender inequality by Torben Iversen and Frances Rosenbluth
2010     Quotas for women in politics : gender and candidate selection reform worldwide by Mona Lena Krook
2009     In an abusive state : how neoliberalism appropriated the feminist movement against sexual violence by Kristin Bumiller
2008     Engendering transitions : women's mobilization, institutions, and gender outcomes by Georgina Waylen; Welfare reform and sexual regulation by Anna Marie Smith
2007     Women's organizations and democracy in South Africa : contesting authority by Shireen Hassim; The politics of sexual harassment : a comparative study of the United States, the European Union, and Germany by Kathrin S. Zippel
2006     Globalizing women : transnational feminist networks by Valentine M. Moghadam
2005     Politics of piety : the Islamic Revival and the feminist subject by Saba Mahmood
2004     The subject of liberty : toward a feminist theory of freedom by Nancy J. Hirschmann
2003     Gendering government : feminist engagement with the state in Australia and Canada by Louise A. Chappell
2002     The private roots of public action : gender, equality, and political participation by Sidney Verba, Kay Lehman Schlozman, and Nancy Burns; War and gender : how gender shapes the war system and vice versa by Joshua S. Goldstein
2001     Is the fetus a person? : a comparison of policies across the fifty states by Jean Reith Schroedel; Women & politics in Uganda by Aili Mari Tripp
2000     Our lives before the law : constructing a feminist jurisprudence by Judith A. Baer
1999     Faithful and fearless : moving feminist protest inside the church and military by Mary Fainsod Katzenstein
1998     Dislocating cultures : identities, traditions, and Third-World feminism by Uma Narayan
1997     After suffrage : women in partisan and electoral politics before the New Deal by Kristi Anderson
1996     The wages of motherhood : inequality in the welfare state, 1917-1942 by Gwendolyn Mink
1995     Women and politics worldwide by Barbara J. Nelson and Najma Chowdhury
1994     At women's expense : state power and the politics of fetal rights by Cynthia R. Daniels
1993     A vindication of political virtue : the political theory of Mary Wollstonecraft by Virginia Sapiro
1992     Segregated sisterhood : racism and the politics of American feminism by Nancy Caraway; Engendering democracy by Anne Phillips
1991     Sex, gender, and the politics of ERA : a state and the nation by Donald G. Mathews; Justice and the politics of difference by Iris M. Young
1990     Justice, gender and the family by Susan Moller Okin; Arms and the enlisted woman by Judith Stiehm
1989     The female body and the law by Zillah R. Eisenstein; The sexual contract by Carole Pateman
1988     Women of the new right by Rebecca E. Klatch; Why we lost the ERA by Jane Mansbridge