Rob Jenkins

Dr. Robert Jenkins is a Professor of Political Science at Hunter College and the Graduate Center at the City University of New York, where he is the Associate Director of the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies.

Women, food security and peacebuilding: from gender essentialism to market fundamentalism

Is gender equality advocates' emphasis on women as agents of change helping to legitimize a neo-liberal vision of government, and working against women's engagement in promoting food security and peacebuilding, asks Rob Jenkins

By Rob Jenkins

/ 28 Jun 2011

Deepening democracy by building gender equality

The conference on 'Women deepening democracy' held in New Delhi last week examined what can be done to tackle the gender-specific double standard encoded into the DNA of political liberalism

By Anne Marie Goetz and Rob Jenkins

/ 18 Jan 2010