Jacqui True FASSA is a political scientist and expert in gender studies. She is a professor of international relations at Monash University, where she is also Director of the Centre for Gender, Peace and Security. She studies international relations, gender mainstreaming, violence against women and its connections to political economy, and the methodology of feminist social science.
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Career
editTrue received an MA from the University of Arizona, followed by a PhD from York University.[1] She then was a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Southern California, before joining the faculty at Michigan State University.[1] She later moved to the University of Auckland, and then Monash University.[1] She has also had visiting positions at the Australian National University and Gothenburg University.[1]
In addition to more than 100 articles in peer reviewed academic journals, True has been an author or editor of more than a dozen books.[1] She has been the sole author of multiple books, including Gender, globalization, and postsocialism: The Czech Republic after communism (2003).[2]
In her 2012 book, The political economy of violence against women, True addresses the apparent paradox that significant recent legislation around the world with the stated purpose of decreasing violence against women had not managed to substantially reduce the problem.[3] She does so by studying what causes violence against women to occur in the first place, from the origins of domestic violence to war crimes _targeting women.[3] She develops an approach based on political economy.[4] True argues that violence against women arises inextricably from inequality, poverty, and the gendered division of household labour, as well as broader phenomena like militarism.[5] This provides an explanation for violence against women in terms of social and economic processes at the local, regional, and global levels, from violence at the home to the tendency for international financial crises to disproportionately affect the well-being of women.[6] The book takes a feminist economic approach to the study of human rights using existing data, case studies, and new analyses.[7] The political economy of violence against women won the Best Book Award from the Human Rights Section of the American Political Science Association in 2013,[8] the 2013 International Political Economy Book Prize from the British International Studies Association, and the Australian Political Science Association's Carole Pateman book prize for gender and politics.[9] It also received the annual book prize from the International Political Economy working group of the British International Studies Association,[10] and was listed in the "best selling" section of the Book Authority list of the 100 best selling gender studies books of all time.[11]
True is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia.[12] In 2018, True was awarded an honorary doctorate by Lund University.[13]
True's work has been cited, or she has been quoted, in media outlets like The New York Times,[14] Ms.,[15] and The Christian Science Monitor.[16]
Selected works
edit- "Transnational networks and policy diffusion: The case of gender mainstreaming", International studies quarterly, with Michael Mintrom (2001)
- Gender, globalization, and postsocialism: The Czech Republic after communism (2003)
- Feminist methodologies for international relations, with Brooke A. Ackerly and Maria Stern (2006)
- Doing feminist research in political and social science, with Brooke A. Ackerly (2010)
- The political economy of violence against women (2012)
Selected awards
edit- Fellow, Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia[12]
- Honorary doctorate, Lund University (2018)[13]
- Eminent Scholar Award in Feminist Theory and Gender Studies, International Studies Association (2020)[17]
References
edit- ^ a b c d e "Jacqui True". Monash University. Retrieved 14 April 2020.
- ^ Bowman, Ann O'M; Sanders, Lynn M.; Prugl, Elisabeth (1 February 2005). "Review Gender, globalization, and postsocialism: The Czech Republic after communism". The Journal of Politics. 67 (1): 313–314. doi:10.1111/j.1468-2508.2005.00318_17.x. S2CID 153929137.
- ^ a b Montoya, Celeste (March 2014). "Review of The political economy of violence against women". Perspectives on Politics. 12 (1): 216–218. doi:10.1017/S1537592714000206. S2CID 145768852.
- ^ Cockey, Marion (1 January 2015). "Review of The political economy of violence against women". Contemporary Sociology. 44 (1): 127–128. doi:10.1177/0094306114562201ccc. S2CID 146759371.
- ^ Chee, Liberty L. (27 March 2014). "Review of The political economy of violence against women". Australian Journal of International Affairs. 68 (3): 379. doi:10.1080/10357718.2014.908493. S2CID 153384290.
- ^ Confortini, Catia C. (1 April 2013). "Review of The political economy of violence against women". Global Governance. 19 (2): 327. doi:10.1163/19426720-01902010.
- ^ Kohli, Ambika (2 October 2015). "Review of The political economy of violence against women". Journal of Women, Politics & Policy. 38 (4): 498–500. doi:10.1080/1554477X.2015.1083738. S2CID 146132725.
- ^ "Best Book Award". American Political Science Association. 2019. Retrieved 14 April 2020.
- ^ "Past Carole Pateman Prize Winners". Australian Political Science Association. 2019. Archived from the original on 11 April 2019. Retrieved 14 April 2020.
- ^ "Book Prize". British International Studies Association. 2016. Retrieved 14 April 2020.
- ^ "100 best selling gender studies books of all time". Book Authority. Retrieved 14 April 2020.
- ^ a b "ASSA Fellow Professor Jacqui True awarded Honorary Doctorate". Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. 6 June 2018. Retrieved 14 April 2020.
- ^ a b "New honorary doctors: Experts on women in peace processes and the gender shift". Lund University. 12 March 2018. Retrieved 14 April 2020.
- ^ Shannon, Victoria (1 July 2010). "Equal Rights for Women? Survey Says: Yes, but ..." The New York Times. Retrieved 14 April 2020.
- ^ Terrell, Cynthia Richie (27 March 2020). "Weekend Reading on Representation: Whose Job is it to Homeschool? How Many Editors are Men? Will We Ever Have a Woman President?". Ms. Magazine. Retrieved 14 April 2020.
- ^ Ritter, Karl (30 May 2016). "Swedish males catch up in gender ratio, as Europe mulls impact of more men". Christian Science Monitor. Retrieved 14 April 2020.
- ^ "PRIO Global Fellow Jacqui True awarded the FTGS Eminent Scholar Award 2020". PRIO Centre. 12 June 2019. Retrieved 14 April 2020.