Fighting the US Youth Sex Trade: Gender, Race, and Politics. By Carrie N. Baker. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. 270p. $89.99 cloth, $29.99 paper.

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 944-945
Author(s):  
Samantha Majic
Keyword(s):  
Sex Trade ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
Race And Politics ◽  
The Us

State Feminism and Political Representation

2007 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 537-538
Author(s):  
Lois Harder
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Political Representation ◽  
Political Process ◽  
Research Network ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
Representation Of Women ◽  
State Feminism ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Women's Policy Agencies

State Feminism and Political Representation, Joni Lovenduski, ed., Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005, pp. xix, 315.Lovenduski's edited volume is an 11-country (10 western European countries and the US), analysis of the effects of women's policy agencies on efforts to increase the representation of women in the political process—in legislatures, on party lists and in public administration. The book is the product of a 10-year collaboration among scholars involved in the Research Network on Gender Politics and the State and it exhibits the rich rewards that such a lengthy and involved affiliation among like-minded scholars can produce.

Trade negotiations and developing countries Negotiating Trade: Developing Countries in the WTO and NAFTA. Cambridge, Cambridge Edited by John S. Odell Cambridge University Press, 2006, pp. xi, 298 Behind the Scenes at the WTO: The Real World of International Trade Negotiations By Fatoumata Jawara and Aileen Kwa London New York, Bangkok: Zed Books in association with Focus on the Global South, updated edition, 2004, pp. lxxxv, 329

2007 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 135-148
Author(s):  
J. MICHAEL FINGER
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Developing Country ◽  
Real World ◽  
Trade Negotiations ◽  
Relative Power ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
Association With Focus ◽  
The Us ◽  
Working Out

The WTO, we hope, is an institution that mutes the importance of raw power – provides a system for working out problems among countries in which the interests of smaller countries are not always overwhelmed by those of larger. The two books reviewed both address this issue, but in different ways. The Odell volume (a collection of studies by different analysts) reviews a number of WTO events in which developed and developing country interests were at odds; e.g., the ‘bananas dispute’ involving Ecuador, the US, and the European Communities. The studies in that volume document the skill of developing country negotiators to use the system to their advantage; they demonstrate that the WTO process often came to outcomes more favorable to smaller countries than a simple weighing of relative power would imply.

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