Sara J. Angevine
Sara J. Angevine
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RESEARCH INTERESTS
Political Institutions

Representation
Gender
Public Policy Formation

Book Manuscript Summary

In my book manuscript, Strategic Feminism: Women’s Rights in American Foreign Policy, I analyze the relationship between women’s rights and American foreign policy in the US Congress. I explore what motivates members of Congress, with limited time and resources, to legislate on behalf of foreign women and compare the policy objectives of what I call women’s rights foreign policy (WRFP) legislation. I apply a mixed-method approach from a feminist theoretical perspective. I created two original datasets for this project. First, the Women’s Rights Foreign Policy Legislation Dataset, which includes all WRFP introduced between 1972-2010. Second, my Congressional Women’s Rights Foreign Policy Entrepreneurship Dataset includes information on all members of Congress between 2005-2010, including WRFP bill sponsorship. To illustrate the nuances of the WRFP process, I conduct qualitative case study analyses on the three most widely supported women’s rights foreign policy bills introduced during the 111th Congress (2009-10): 1) a bill supporting the ratification of the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW); 2) the International Violence Against Women Act of 2010 (IVAWA); and 3) the International Protecting Girls from Child Marriage Act of 2009. 
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Article
"Representing All Women, An Analysis of Congress, Foreign Policy, and the Boundaries of Women’s Surrogate Representation"  Political Research Quarterly, March 2017, Available Online (Nov.21, 2016): http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1065912916675737

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