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Professor Maxine Molyneux

Maxine Molyneux


Email: m.molyneux@ucl.ac.uk

Professor of Sociology and Institute Director

Biography

Maxine Molyneux was born in Pakistan and grew up in India and Latin America. She is currently Professor of Sociology and Director of the Institute of the Americas,  University College London, where she supervises Doctoral students on Latin American Development policy and practice, gender, politics, social policy, memory and migration. Until Autumn 2011 she also served as the Chair of the Steering Group of the Human Rights Consortium of the School of Advanced Study.

She joined the Institute of Latin American Studies (ILAS) in 1994, and previously held full time posts in the Politics Department of Birkbeck College, and in the Sociology Department of Essex University from where she gained her PhD in 1983.

Professor Molyneux has written extensively in the fields of political sociology, gender and development, human rights and social policy, and has authored books on Latin America, Ethiopia and South Yemen. Since 1999 she has acted as a senior adviser, consultant and researcher to UNRISD on a variety of research projects, as well as to IDRC (Canada), UNIFEM, and Oxfam, and has undertaken funded research for the UK’s Department for International Development, the ILO, CARE International and other development policy agencies. Her current research is on the effectiveness of social protection and anti-poverty instruments, and on social policy in Latin America.

Maxine Molyneux is the editor of Palgrave/Macmillan’s  'Studies of the Americas'  Series   and in recent years has also edited the Institute for the Study of the America’s in-house book series which is distributed by the Brookings Institution. She serves on the Editorial Boards of Economy and Society, the Journal of Latin American Studies, and is an international Advisor to Development and Change.

Among her current memberships are the following:

  • Elected member of the Latin American Studies Association Executive Committee
  • Elected member of the Scientific Council of the Institut des Amériques, Paris.
  • British Academy:  Member of the LAC Areas Panel
  • Chair of Standing Conference of UK Latin American and Caribbean Centres
  • Member of Board of Trustees of Canning House
  • Member of Executive Committee of the Society of Latin American Studies, UK

Books

Gender Justice, Development and Rights (ed. with S. Razavi) Oxford University Press  2003

The Politics of Rights: Dilemmas for Feminist Praxis (ed. with Andrea Corwall) Routledge 2007/8.

Women's Movements in International Perspective: Latin America and Beyond. Palgrave/Macmillan (and pbk ISA/Brookings Series), 2003 and 2000

Gender and the Politics of Rights and Democracy in Latin America  (ed. with N. Craske) Palgrave, 2002.

The Hidden Histories of  Gender and the State in Latin America (ed. with E. Dore) Duke U.P. 2000

Doing the Rights Thing: Rights-Based Development and Latin American NGOs in Latin America  (with Sian Lazar)  Intermediate Technology Publications Group, 2003

Movimientos de Mujeres en América Latina: Estudio Comparativa y Teórico Cátedra, Spain, 2003 

La Voz de La Mujer: Periódico Comunista-Anárquico, University of Quilmes, Buenos Aires, 1997.

The Ethiopian Revolution (with Fred Halliday), Verso/NLB London, 1982

State Policies and the Position of Women in Democratic Yemen, I.L.O., Geneva, 1982

Selected articles, special issues edited and introduced, policy reports and other publications

Special Issue: 'Latin American Capitalism: Economic and Social Policy in Transition,' Economy and Society co-edited and introduced with Diego Sanchez Ancochea and Juliana Martínez Franzoni, Vol 38/1 February 2009.

’Abortion Law Reforms in Colombia and Nicaragua: Issue Networks and Opportunity Contexts’ with C. Reutersward, P. Zetterberg, S.Thapar-Bjorkert:  Development and Change, vol 42/3, 2011, pp 807-831

Conditional Cash Transfers: A ‘Pathway to Women’s Empowerment’? Pathways Working Paper, 5, IDS, Sussex, 2008, pp 1-97. (Also can be found as an online resource for Governance and Social Development Resource Centre (http://www.gsdrc.org/), placed March 2011. Also see Annotated Bibliography on CCTs in Latin America (with C.Tabbush) IDS Pathways Project, available on Americas.sas.ac.uk/molyneux 2009.

CCT Programmes and Women’s Empowerment in Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador (with Marilyn Thomson) CARE International Policy Paper, pp 76, London 2011

‘Justicia de Género, ciudadanía y diferencia en América Latina’  Studia Histórica,  Special Issue Historia Reciente de América Latina 181-211, Vol 28, 2010.

Special Section entitled 'New Developments in Latin America’s Social Policy', co-edited and introduced with Armando Barrientos and Jasmine Gideon, Development and Change, 39 (5) 2008

‘Cash transfers, Gender Equity and Women’s Empowerment in Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia’ (with Marilyn Thomson), Gender and Development Vol 19: 2, 2011, pp 195-210.

‘La Voz de la Mujer:1896-1897’  Genre, Postcolonialisme et diversité des movements de Femmes. Cahiers Genre et Développement No 7. 241-247, Paris: L’Harmattan, 2011.

‘Mobilisation without Emancipation; Women’s Interests, the State and Revolution in Nicaragua’ excerpt reprinted as lead article in anthology Women, Gender and Politics: a Reader edited by Mona Lena Krook and Sarah Childs, OUP, Oxford, 2010.

‘Mothers At The Service Of The New Poverty Agenda: PROGRESA/Oportunidades, Mexico’s Conditional Transfer Programme’, 2006 Journal of Social Policy and Administration, Vol 40, 2/3, 2006.

'Change and Continuity in Social Protection: Mothers at the Service of the State,' Gender and Development Papers pp 98,  No. 1, UNRISD, Geneva, 2007

 ‘The ‘Neoliberal Turn’ and the New Social Policy in Latin America: How Neoliberal? How New?’ Development and Change 39 (5) pp 775-797, 2008

‘New Developments in Latin America’s Social Policy’ (with Armando Barrientos and Jasmine Gideon) Development and Change 39 (5) pp 759-774, 2008

‘Refiguring Citizenship: Research Perspectives on Gender Justice in the Latin American and Caribbean Region’ in Maitrayee Mukhopadhyay and N. Singh eds. Gender Justice, Citizenship and Development, Zubaan, 2007).

‘Two Cheers for Conditional Cash Transfers’ in Institute of Development Studies Bulletin, Vol 38, No 3 May 2007.69-75

'Gender Equality: Striving for Justice in an Unequal World' (contributing co-editor), UNRISD 2005 (UNRISD Report for Beijing Plus 10 presented to the UN General Assembly).

‘‘The Chimera of Success: Gender Ennui and the Changed International Policy Environment’ in A. Cornwall et al. Eds. Feminisms in Development: Contradictions, Contestations and Challenges London: Zed 2007, pp 227-240. Also published as ‘The Chimera of Success’ Institute of Development Studies Bulletin Vol 35 No 4 Oct 2004, and translated into Spanish for forthcoming publication of Red HAINA, Sweden, 2007 Also as ‘La Címera del Éxito’ in Maria Clara Medina, Edmé Dominguez & Rosalba Icaza Garza eds, Género y globalización en América Latina. Décimo aniversario de la Red Haina (1996-2006), Serie Haina volumen 6. Instituto Iberoamericano, Universidad de Göteborg Dec.2006 (ISSN 1403-3933 ISBN 978-91-977042-1-2).

‘Forward’ to Decoding Gender: Law and Practice in Contemporary Mexico edited by H. Baitenmann et.al, Rutgers University Press, 2007

‘La Política de Desarrollo y la dimensión de Género del Capital Social’ (Development Policy and the Gender Dimension of Social Capital), Papeles por la Paz Issue 101, Spring 2008, pp 63-81 special issue on Social Cohesion - De Que Depende Cohesion Social? (CIP, Madrid)

‘Beijing Plus Ten: An Ambivalent Record of Progress’ (with Shahra Razavi) lead article in Special Issue of Development and Change Vol 36, No. 6, pp 983-1010, 2005 and in an expanded version under the same title as UNRISD Occasional Paper 15, 2006 pp1-27. 

‘El Ecofeminismo de Mies y Shiva: un Nuevo Testamento?’ (with Deborah Steinberg) In Verónica Vazquez García y Margarita Velásquez Gutierrez , Miradas al Futuro: Hacia la construcción de sociedades sustentables con equidad de genero UNAM Mexico 2004

‘La Política de los derechos y sus transformaciones. Mujeres, derechos y democracia en América Latina’ in Pasajes de Pensamiento Contemporáneo 12:, pp 83-96

‘Droits des femmes, Culture et Justice’ (with S. Razavi) in Genre, Pouvoirs et Justice Sociale, Cahiers Genre et Developpement No 4 , L’Harmattan, Geneva 2003

'Interests, Strategic and Practical' Entry for Routledge International Encyclopaedia of Feminist Thought, Routledge 2003

‘Gender and the Silences of Social Capital: Lessons from Latin America’ Development and Change Vol. 33 167-188, 2002.

'Mondialisation et inégalité sexuelle' in Barret-Ducrocq, F. (ed.) Quelle Mondialisation? Paris: Bernard Grasset 141-153, 2002.

'Género y Ciudadanía en América Latina: Cuestiones Históricas y Contemporáneas' in Debates Feministas (Mexico) pp. 1-63, 2002.

'Women’s Movements' – Entry in the Blackwell Dictionary of Modern Social Thought, ed William Outhwaite, 2002

'Ethnography and Global Processes’ in Ethnography, Vol 1, No. 2. 2001.

‘Twentieth Century State Formations in Latin America’ Introductory Chapter of Dore and Molyneux 2000, op.cit.

State, Gender and Institutional Change: The Women’s Federation of Cuba Research Paper No 43, Institute for Latin American Studies, 1996, translated into Spanish and appeared as ‘Estado, Género y Cambio institucional en el período especial Cubano: la Federación de Mujeres Cubanas’in Irene López y Ana Rosa Alcade eds. Relaciones de género y Desarrollo Instituto Universitario de Desarrollo y cooperación, Madrid, 1999

Understanding Women’s Social Capital, 2005 Global Exchange Forum Report, The Foreign Policy Centre and Barrow Cadbury Trust, London, pp 3-21

‘Gender and Citizenship in Comparative Perspective' in J. Cook, J. Roberts and G. Waylen eds: Towards a Gendered Political Economy, Macmillan, pp. 121-144, 2000.

'The Politics of Abortion in Nicaragua: Revolutionary Pragmatism or Feminism in the Realm of Necessity?', Feminist Review, No. 29, May 1988. Reprinted in C. Koggel ed. Moral Issues in Global Perspective, Broadview Press, Canada, 2000.

‘Citizenship and Social Policy in Comparative Perspective’ in S. Reuben ed, La Política Social en una Epoca de Transición, FLACSO Costa Rica 2000.

‘The Politics of the Cuban Diaspora in the US’ in V. Bulmer Thomas and J. Dunkerley, The US and Latin America: The New Agenda, ILAS/Harvard, pp. 287-309, 1999.

‘Analysing Women’s Movements,’ Development and Change pp.219-245 Vol.29.2. Reprinted in C. Jackson and R. Pearson eds. Feminist Visions of Development: Gender Analysis and Policy Routledge, pp.65-88, 1998.

‘Debates sobre Comunitarismo, Moralidad y Politicas de Identidad’ in E. Hola and A.M.Portugal eds. La Ciudadanía: A Debate ISIS International and CEM, Santiago, Chile, 1998, pp. 15-34. Republished as: 'Debates sobre comunitarismo, moralidad y politicas de Identidad' in E. Bosch, V.A. Ferrer, T. Riera eds: Una Ciencia No Androcentrica: Reflexions Multidisciplinars Universitat de les Illes Balears, 2000, and translated into Arabic and published in Abwab, pp.100-129, No. 14, Summer 1997.

'The Law, The State and Socialist Policies with regard to women: the case of the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen', The International Journal of the Sociology of Law, 13 :147-172. Updated and Reprinted in S. Kruks et. al eds Promissory Notes: Women in the Transition to Socialism, edited by S. Kruks et al. Monthly Review Press 1989, pp.127-147; and in Islam, Women and the State edited by Deniz Kandiyoti (Cambridge University Press), pp.237-254. Translated into Arabic and published in Studies on Women in Yemen ed. Lucine Taminian, Yemen Research Series, 3. (Ardmore PA: American Institute for Yemeni Studies, pp.205-253, 1997.

'The Latin American Left' Review Article, Bulletin of Latin American Research Vol 15 No 3 September, pp, 387-392, 1996.

'Women's Rights and the International Context: Some Reflections on the Post-Communist States' Millennium: Journal of International Studies Vol 23. No 2. (Translation appeared in Más Allá del Derecho, Vol 4 Issue No. 11 Dec. 1994, ILSA, Bogota. Updated and reprinted in M. Threlfall ed. Mapping Women's Movements, Verso, 1996

'Mies and Shiva's Ecofeminism: a new Testament?' (with Deborah Steinberg), Feminist Review No 49, pp 84 –107, Spring 1995. Translation appeared in Ecología Política No 8 .

'Beyond the Domestic Labour Debate', New Left Review, No. 116 1979, pp 3-27. Translated, and published as - 'Il dibattito sul lavoro domestico', in Donna, Woman, Femme, 12/13, (1979) and - 'Huishoudelijke arbeid-debat voorbij', Krisis (May 1980), and - 'Critique of the Domestic Labour Debate' in Economic Labour Studies, Vol. 7, March l987 (Japan). 'Más Allá del debate sobre el Trabajo Domestico' in C. Borderías, C Carrasco y C. Alemany eds, Las Mujeres y el Trabajo: Rupturas Conceptuales Fuhem, Madrid and Barcelona, 1995.

'Women's Rights and Political Contingency: The Case of Yemen 1990-1994’Middle East Journal Vol.49, No 3 Summer (pp 418-431). 1995 Updated and reprinted as Chapter 7 ‘Women's rights and political conflict in Yemen 1990-1994’ in R. Wilford and R. Miller eds. Women, Ethnicity and Nationalism: The Politics of Divided Societies 133-149, London: New York 1998.

'"The Woman Question" in the Age of Perestroika' New Left Review, No 183 September/October, pp.23-49 1989. Reprinted in R. Blackburn (ed), After the Fall (Verso 1991) (pp.17-77). Reprinted as 'The Woman Question in the Age of Communism's Collapse' in Mary Evans ed. The Woman Question Second Ed., Sage.

Oxford Dictionary of Sociology, ed. Gordon Marshall: contributed 54 entries on development related concepts, 1994.

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