L'AFSP présente…
Amy Mazur, responsable du French Politics Group (FPG) de l'APSA (American Political Science Association) depuis 2002.

Amy Mazur is Professor of Political Science at Washington State University. She received a joint Ph.D. in Political Science and French Studies from New York University. Her research and teaching interests focus on comparative gender policy and gender politics in France. Her books include: Gender Bias and the State: Symbolic Reform at Work in Fifth Republic France (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1996), Theorizing Feminist Policy ( Oxford, 2003), Comparative State Feminism (co edited with Dorothy McBride, Sage, 1995), Making Democracies Work for Women: State Feminism, Women’s Movements, and Job Training Policy (editor, Routledge 2003). Her articles have appeared in the following journals: Policy Studies Journal, French Politics and Society, Political Research Quarterly, West European Politics, Journal of French Contemporary Civilization, Espace-Temps, and Travail Genre et Société. She has received $175,000 in research grants from the National Science Foundation, the French Ministry of Social Affairs, and European Science Foundation. In 2003, she was the Havens Center Visiting Scholar at the University of Wisconsin — Madison and in 2001-02, the Marie-Jahoda Chair in International Women’s Studies at Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany. She co directs the Research Network on Gender Politics and the State (RNGS) and heads the French Politics Group of the American Political Science Association. She is also co editor of Political Research Quarterly. In 2005, she was an expert and rapporteur for an Expert Group Meeting for the Division of the Advancement of Women at the United Nations.

Contact : mazur@wsu.edu

Selected Publications...

Books:

• Theorizing Feminist Policy. London: Oxford University Press. 2002.
• State Feminism, Women’s Movements, and Job Training: Making Democracies Work the Global Economy. Edited. New York: Routledge. 2001.
• Gender Bias and the State: Symbolic Reform at Work in Fifth Republic France. Pitt Series in Policy and Institutional Studies. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press. 1995.
• Comparative State Feminism. Edited with Dorothy McBride Stetson. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. 1995

• "La France est-elle toujours le pays des réformes symboliques ? Travail, Genre, et Société . no. 12. November, 2004. 173-81.
• "Comparing Feminist Policy in Politics and at Work in France and Germany." Edited with Susanne Zwingel. Special issue with eight articles. Review of Policy Research. Fall. 20 (3). 2003.
• "Comparing Feminist Policy in Politics and at Work in France and Germany: Shared European Setting, Divergent National Contexts" With Susanne Zwingel. In special issue on "Comparing Feminist Policy in Politics and at Work in France and Germany." Mazur and Zwingel, ed. Review of Policy Research. Fall 20 (3). 2003. 365-383.
• "Drawing Comparative Lessons From France and Germany." In special issue on "Comparing Feminist Policy in Politics and at Work in France and Germany." Mazur and Zwingel, ed. Review of Policy Research. Fall 20 (3) 2003. 491-523.
• "Le genre gâché: La féminisation de l’action publique." With Claudie Baudino. Espace-Temps. 2001. 68-80.

Selected Grants

• National Science Foundation-- Program in Law and Social Sciences. "Collaborative Project: Comparative Study of Women’s Policy Offices." $138,878 at Washington State University; $241,819 at Florida Atlantic University. 2001-2005.
• European Science Foundation. Network grant for two RNGS meetings in 2002-3. $71,262. Application written in collaboration with Joni Lovenduski and Dorothy McBride. Awarded in January 2002. Extension ($18,000) granted in November, 2003.
• European Science Foundation, Network Grant for RNGS. $20,000. Network grant awarded to fund one group research meeting. October, 1998. Application written in collaboration with Joni Lovenduski and Dorothy McBride Stetson.
• Ministère de l’Emploi et de la Solidarité --Service des Droits des Femmes. $50,000. Research grant awarded by the French government to the RNGS-France team to conduct research for RNGS. 1997-2000. Direct and coordinate research of other three team members.

Government Consultancy

One of twelve experts for the Expert Group Meeting on Equal Participation of Women and Men in Decision-making Processes, with Particular Emphasis on Political Participation and Leadership. United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), Division for the Advancement of Women (DAW), October 24-27^th, 2005. Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.