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University of Wisconsin, Madison
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Department of Political Science University of Wisconsin-Madison 401 North Hall, 1050 Bascom Mall Madison, Wisconsin 53706 USA
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phone: 608-263-1873 fax: 608-274-2691
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Tanzania, Uganda
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comparative politics, African politics, women and politics (global), women and social movements in comparative perspective, women and the global economy, women and contemporary change in Africa.
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comparative politics, African politics, women and politics (global), women and social movements in comparative perspective, women and the global economy, women and contemporary change in Africa.
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Co-authored with Isabel Casimiro, Joy Kwesiga, and Alice Mungwa. African Women's Movements: Transforming Political Landscapes. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009 Edited with Myra Marx Ferree. Global Feminism: Transnational Women's Activism, Organizing, and Human Rights. New York: New York University Press. 2006. Editor of Sub-Saharan Africa: The Greenwood Encylopedia of Women's Issues Worldwide. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. 2003. Coedited with Joy Kwesiga. The Women's Movement in Uganda: History, Challenges and Prospects. Kampala: Fountain Publishers. 2002. Author of Women & Politics in Uganda. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press; Oxford: James Currey and Kampala: Fountain Press. 2000. (Co-winner of the 2001 Victoria Schuck Award of the American Political Science Association for the best book published in women and politics. Recipient of a 2001 Choice Outstanding Academic Titles Award) Author of Changing the Rules: The Politics of Liberalization and the Urban Informal Economy in Tanzania. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. 1997. Coedited book with Marja-Liisa Swantz. What Went Right in Tanzania? People's Responses to Directed Development. Dar es Salaam: University of Dar es Salaam Press. 1996. I have also published articles and chapters on women and politics in Africa; women's responses to economic reform; and transformations of associational life in Africa.
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