Our three-year term as editors of Politics & Gender ends with this issue and we have turned the journal over into the capable hands of Professor Jennifer Lawless of American University. We are confident that she and her team will continue to move the journal forward and expand its place in the intellectual discussions of gender politics in the years to come.
We wish to take this opportunity to thank all of the many people who have contributed to making this journal the success that it is. Whether you contributed an article, talked up the journal to colleagues, solicited manuscripts, reviewed manuscripts, or simply were a reader of the journal, you assisted the efforts to strengthen the place of Politics & Gender as the premier journal of this subfield in the discipline. We could not have done it without you.
In particular, we wish to thank our associate editors—Georgina Waylen, Martha Ackelsberg, Spike Petersen, Sue Thomas and Hawley Fogg-Davis—as well as our board, who generously offered us their time and expertise in giving direction to the journal, making difficult decisions, evaluating manuscripts, editing Critical Perspectives sections, and much more. We also wish to thank Kimberly Rice, a PhD candidate at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, who served as our editorial assistant.
We are especially grateful to all who helped edit the Critical Perspectives sections, which resulted in so many important debates and agenda setting essays. In particular, we would like to thank Marian Sawer (Studying Women's Movements), Sally Kenney (Gender and Judging), Spike Petersen (Gender and Global Householding), Martha Ackelsberg (Whatever Happened to Feminist Critiques of Marriage?), Brooke Ackerly (Feminism and Quantitative Methods in International Relations), Fiona Mackay and Georgina Waylen (Feminist Institutionalism), Nancy Burns (Race and Gender in the 2008 Democratic Presidential Nomination Process), Sue Thomas (“Backlash” and Its Utility to Political Scientists) and Sonia Kruks (Iris Marion Young: Legacies for Feminist Theory).
We are most grateful for the invaluable support we received from Cambridge University Press, especially from Pooja Jain, Assistant Editor; Mark Zadrozny, Senior Editor; Megha Jain, Production Editor; and Susan Soule, Journals Marketing Manager. Maura Wittstein of Aries Systems was a joy to work with in getting the journal on line and providing subsequent support. This wonderful team of people impressed us with their professionalism and attentiveness to helping us establish this relatively new journal.
We are similarly indebted to the Women and Politics Research Section of the American Political Science Association (APSA), especially Kira Sanbonmatsu, Debora Liebowitz and Laura Weldon, and for the crucial backing of APSA, particularly its Executive Director, Michael Britnall, and its web and publications director, Polly Siobhan Karpowicz.
Finally, we wish to thank our home institutions, particularly University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee for providing an institutional home for the journal over the past three years and Dean Richard Meadows and Associate Dean Rodney Swain for their continued support.
We learned a tremendous amount from the experience of the founding editors, Karen Beckwith and Lisa Baldez, and were honored to be able to build on their important work in launching the journal. We are pleased to have been given the opportunity to contribute in a small way to a journal that political scientists worldwide recognize as the standard for politics and gender scholarship.
