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The Victoria Schuck Award: A Sonata for Gender Politics Scholarship

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 June 2011

Sue Tolleson-Rinehart
Sue Tolleson-Rinehart
Affiliation:
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Even as this issue of Politics & Gender appears in print, a committee of scholars (Kimberly Morgan, Vanita Seth, and Wendy Gunther-Canada in 2011) is serving the discipline by undertaking the fascinating and painful task of choosing a book (or books) upon which to bestow the American Political Science Association's Victoria Schuck Award for Best Book on Gender Politics. Twenty three committees have given the award to 32 books since the first awards were made in 1988. The Schuck Award is one of only four association-wide book awards (the others, of course, are the Ralph Bunche Award for ethnic and cultural pluralism; the Gladys Kammerer Award for best book in U.S. national policy; and the Woodrow Wilson Award for Best Book as chosen by the Woodrow Wilson Foundation on government, politics, or international relations). How did the young field of gender politics reach such heights of scholarly recognition so soon?

Type
Book Review Essay
Information
Politics & Gender , Volume 7 , Issue 2 , June 2011 , pp. 294 - 302
Copyright
Copyright © The Women and Politics Research Section of the American Political Science Association 2011

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References

1. The APSA Organized Sections bestow more than 20 additional book awards each year, a wonderful measure of our discipline's scholarly productivity.

2. Grateful thanks to Sean Twombly of the American Political Science Association for helping me trace the history of the award and the award committees and for supplying me with the Mann-Wildavsky-Schuck correspondence, as well as other association information referenced throughout this essay.

3. Personal communication with author (February 14, 2011).

4. Emily Weir, “In Memoriam: Victoria Schuck,” Mount Holyoke News and Notes, 1999, http://www.mtholyoke.edu/offices/comm/csj/990226/notable.html (Accessed February 14, 2011).

5. Personal communication with author (February 14, 2011).

6. Personal communication with author (February 17, 2011).

7. Mann-Wildavsky-Schuck correspondence, 1986; copies provided to author by Sean Twombly of the APSA.

8. Personal communication with Sean Twombly (February 17, 2011).