Associate Professor Louise Chappell
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About Associate Professor Louise Chappell
Associate Professor Louise Chappell researches and teaches in the area of human rights, comparative Australian politics and policy, and gender and politics.
Associate Professor Chappell is currently involved in a number of research projects in the area of women’s rights including studies of religious and cultural challenges to women’s rights internationally and the effectiveness of new UN provisions to stop trafficking of women and girls.
Her publications include Gendering Government: Feminist Engagement with the State (UBC Press 2002), which won the prestigious Victoria Schuck Award granted by the American Political Science Association in 2003 for the best book in the field of women and politics as well as the 2004 American Library Association Choice Award. Associate Professor Chappell has also published articles in a range of journals including: International Feminist Journal of Politics, Australian Journal of Political Science, Parliamentary Affairs, and the Australian Journal of Public Administration. A new book The Politics of Women’s Interests, co-edited with Lisa Hill, will be published by Routledge in 2005.
Associate Professor Chappell is also engaged in teaching, training and consulting on public policy issues in Australia and is currently an elected member of the Institute of Public Administration Australia Council (NSW division).
Selected publications
2007
Conference Proceeding/s
Chappell L 2007 'Comparative Gender and Institutions: Directions for Research', 2007 American Political Science Association Conference, Chicago, USA,30 August- 2 September.
2006
Book Section/s
Brennan D and Chappell L 2006 'Introduction: Gender and NSW Politics' in No Fit Place for Women´?: Women and Politics in New South Wales 1856-2006, ed. D.Brennan and L.Chappell, UNSW Press, Sydney pp. 1-14.
Chappell L 2006 'Working from within: women in the NSW bureaucracy' in No Fit Place for Women’? Women and Politics in New South Wales 1856-2006, ed. L.Chappell and D.Brennan, University of New South Wales Press, Sydney.
Edited Book/s
Chappell L and Hill L 2006 The Politics of Women´s Interests: New Comparative Perspectives , Routledge Press. , UK.
Journal Article/s
Chappell L 2006 'Contesting Women's Rights: Charting the Emergence of a Transnational Conservative Patriarchal Network', Global Society, vol.20:4, pp. 491-519.
Chappell L 2006 'Comparing Political Institutions; Revealing the Gendered "Logic of Appropriateness"', Politics and Gender, vol.2:2, pp. 223-34.
2005
Conference Proceeding/s
Chappell L 2005 'Gender mainstreaming in International Institutions: developments at the UN ad hoc tribunals and the International Criminal Court', International Studies Association, Hawaii USA,3-5 March, 2006.