Sylvia Walby

Sylvia Walby OBE, is one of the world's leading authorities on gender.Fact|date=June 2008 She is a British sociologist, currently Professor of Sociology at Lancaster University. She is noted for work in the fields of the domestic violence, patriarchy, gender relations in the workplace and globalisation.

Walby is coordinator of the Gender Equality Research Network International (GENIe) the aim of which is to develop, through research, the knowledge base to understand and reduce gender inequality.Cite web|url=http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/sociology/staff/walby/GENIe.pdf|title=Gender Equality Research Network International|accessdate=2008-06-15|publisher=Lancaster University|year=December 20, 2007|author=Lancaster University Department Of Sociology|format=PDF] She is principal Investigator of the Lancaster node of Quing, an Integrated Project funded by the European Union under Framework 6 to investigate gender and citizenship in a multicultural context, 2006-2011, Member of the Executive Board, and Leader of the strand on Intersectionality. She is also co-organiser of an international network on Gender Globalization and Work Transformation (GLOW).

Career

Walby has been Sociology Professor at the University of Leeds, Professor and Head of Department of Sociology at Bristol University; Reader in Sociology and Director of the Gender Institute at the LSE; Lecturer in Sociology and Director of the Women's Studies Research Centre at Lancaster University; Visiting Associate Professor in Sociology at UCLA and Honorary Visiting Scholar at the Schlesinger Library, Harvard University. She was the first President of the European Sociological Association and has been Chair of the Women's Studies Network UK.

Her current research is situated within the tension between general social theory and specific forms of inequality, especially gender. Over the years this led her from theories of patriarchy to a current concern to mainstream difference into social theory. She has an interest in economic matters, a fascination with new political forms, and concern with marginalised groups. Today, all of these issues are framed by globalisation, the understanding of which requires new forms of social theory, especially complexity theories.

She was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2008 Birthday Honours. [LondonGazette |issue=58729 |date=14 June 2008 |startpage=13 |supp=yes |notarchive=yes]

Current research themes and writing

Gender Equality Research Network International (GENIe)

Walby is coordinator of the Gender Equality Research Network International (GENIe). The aim of GENIe is to develop, through research, the knowledge base to understand and reduce gender inequality.

The Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences is funding developmental workshops at Lancaster to take forward new ventures in gender analysis.

QUING: Gender Equality in the EU

Quing is an Integrated Project funded by the European Union under Framework 6 to investigate gender and citizenship in a multicultural context, 2006-2011. QUING is comparing the meanings of gender equality in each of the 25 EU member states, together with 4 would-be EU members. This involves close textual analysis of key policy documents on gender equality in employment, gender-based violence and intimate citizenship, as well as the comparative analysis of the varied institutional and social structural environments under which these meanings develop. Quing will contribute to the development of gender theory, especially in relation to intersectionality and to the theorisation of differences in gender regimes, as well as to more effective gender equality policies. With partners in Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Netherlands, Slovenia, Spain, and Turkey, the project is coordinated by Mieke Verloo in Vienna. The total budget is 4,742,000 Euros, with 634,000 Euros for Lancaster. Sylvia Walby is the Principal Investigator of the Lancaster node, Member of the Executive Board, and Leader of the strand on Intersectionality.

ocial theory, Complexity theory

. "Globalization and Complex Inequalities" (Sage 2007) is a forthcoming book from a long-term programme of research.
* [http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/sociology/papers/walby-modernitiesglobalisationcomplexities.pdf 'Modernities/Globalisation/Complexities']
* [http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/sociology/papers/walby-complexityglobalisationdiversity.pdf 'Complexity theory, realism and path dependency']
* [http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/sociology/papers/walby-Signs.pdf 'Against epistemological chasms: the science question in feminism revisited'] Signs: A Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 2001, 26, 2, 485-509, led to a debate with Sandra Harding in Signs.

Gender, Globalization and Work Transformation

Walby is co-organiser of an international network on Gender Globalization and Work Transformation (GLOW), with members in US, Japan, Germany and UK. Key interests are in the relationship between the new knowledge based economy and new non-standard employment forms in the context of changing forms of regulation and deregulation and globalisation.

* "Gendering the Knowledge Economy", book edited with GLOW (Palgrave 2007).
* [http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/sociology/papers/walby-genderandtheneweconomy.pdf 'Gender and the new economy: regulation or deregulation?']
* [http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/sociology/papers/Walby-Gender(in)equalityandthefutureofwork.pdf 'Gender (in)equality and the future of work']

Gender-based violence

Work for the UN on improving statistics and indicators on violence against women:

** [http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/sociology/papers/walby-improvingstatisticsUN.pdf 'Improving the statistics on violence against women'] , Statistical Journal of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, 22, 4, 193-216, 2005.
** [http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/sociology/papers/walby-Indicatorsgenderbasedviolence.pdf Developing Indicators on Violence Against Women] , 2006.
** [http://www.unece.org/stats/documents/ece/ces/ge.30/2006/7.e.pdf Towards international standards for data collection and statistics on violence against women] , 2006
** Member of UN Task Force on Violence Against Women, 2006-.
*** [http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/sociology/papers/walby-hors.pdf Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault and Stalking:] Findings from the British Crime Survey Home Office Research Study 276, 2004, with Jonathan Allen, based on a consultancy to the Home Office British Crime Survey.
*** [http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/sociology/papers/walby-costdomesticviolence.pdf The Cost of Domestic Violence] , 2004, from research funded by the DTI Women and Equality Unit.
*** [http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/sociology/papers/WalbyBJCmethodology.pdf 'Comparing the methodology of the new national surveys of violence against women'] , British Journal of Criminology, 2001, 41, 3, 502-522, with Andrew Myhill, is based on Nuffield Foundation funded work.

Politics in a global era

* [http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/sociology/papers/walby-mythofthenationstate.pdf 'The myth of the nation-state:] Theorizing society and polities in a global era', Sociology, 2003, 37, 1, 531-548. (Debate with Bruce and Voas, 2004).
* [http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/sociology/papers/walby-socialpolitics.pdf 'The European Union and gender equality:] Emergent varieties of gender regime', Social Politics, 2004, 11, 1, 4-29.
* [http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/sociology/papers/walby-FeminismGlobalEra.pdf 'Feminism in a global age'] , Economy and Society, 2002, 31, 4, 533-557;
* [http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/sociology/papers/Walby-fromcommunityto%20coalition.pdf 'From community to coalition:] the politics of recognition as the handmaiden of the politics of redistribution', Theory, Culture and Society, 2001, 18, 2-3, 113-135;

Measuring Gender Equality

* [http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/sociology/papers/walby-womensprogress.pdf 'Gender transformations and global processes: Situating Beijing + 10'] , International Social Science Journal, September 2005. Originally prepared for UNESCO.
* Contributed research to EU Presidency (Luxembourg) report on 'Beijing+10: Progress Made Within the European Union', 2005. (with Anne-Marie Theisen, Nadine Spoden and Mieke Verloo).
* [http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/sociology/papers/walby-weupayandproductivity.pdf Modelling Gender Pay Gaps] . (with Olsen) Equal Opportunities Commission, 2004.
* [http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/sociology/papers/walby-weupayandproductivity.pdf 'Gender, Economic Development, Economic Growth and Democracy'] , ESRC funded project with Wendy Olsen, 2004-5.
* Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society and member Official Statistics Committee.

ESRC Gender seminars

ESRC funded seminar series, 'Gender Mainstreaming' 2003-4.
* [http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/sociology/papers/walby-ComparativeGenderMainstreaming.pdf 'Comparative Gender Mainstreaming'] , International Feminist Journal of Politics, December 2005, 7, 4. Special issue of papers from seminar. ‘Introduction: Comparative gender mainstreaming in a global era’, International Feminist Journal of Politics, 7, 4, 453-471.
* 'Gender Mainstreaming Theory', Social Politics, December 2005, 12, 3. Special issue with papers from seminar. 'Gender mainstreaming: Productive tensions in theory and practice': [http://sp.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/jxi018?ijkey=yFk0XdpzrxyGm8C&keytype=ref Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society 2005 12(3):321-343]

ESRC funded seminar series, 'What is Gender Equality', 2005-7

* 2006, March. Gendering the Knowledge Economy, March 2006, special issue of Gender Work and Organization (forthcoming 2007).
* 2006, May. 'Indicators and statistics of gender based violence'; co-hosted by Royal Statistical Society, [http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/sociology/events/RSS/RSSindex.htm Programme and presentations here] .
* 2007, April 'Developing indicators and official statistics to monitor the new duty to promote gender equality', [http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/sociology/events/RSS/RSSindex2007.htm Programme and presentations here] .

Publications

* "Localities, Class and Gender" (with Lancaster Regionalism Group) Pion 1985.

* "Patriarchy at Work", Polity 1986.

* "Gender Segregation at Work" (edited) Sage 1988.

* "Theorizing Patriarchy", Blackwell 1990.

* "Restructuring Place Class & Gender" (with Lancaster Regionalism Group) Sage 1990

* "Sex Crime in the News" (with Soothill) Routledge 1991.

* "Out of the Margins" (edited with Aaron) Falmer 1991.

* "Medicine and Nursing: Professions in a Changing Health Service" (with Greenwell, MacKay and Soothill) Sage 1994

* "Gender Transformations", Routledge 1997.

* "European Societies: Fusion or Fission"? (edited with Boye and Van Steenbergen, Routledge 1999).

* "New Agendas for Women" (edited) (foreword by Clare Short) Macmillan 1999.

* "Contemporary British Society" (with Abercrombie, Warde et al) 3rd edition Polity 2000

* Gendering the Knowledge Economy, March 2006, special issue of Gender Work and Organization (forthcoming 2007).

Footnotes

References

* "The forced marriage debate and the British state". Amrit Wilson. Race & Class, 7 2007; vol. 49: pp. 25 - 38.
* "Integrationism: the politics of anti-Muslim racism". Arun Kundnani. Race & Class, 4 2007; vol. 48: pp. 24 - 44.
* [http://www.eoc.org.uk/Default.aspx?page=19041 Equal Opportunities Commission: Meeting on gender statistics priorities 27 April 2006]
* "Putting a Stop to Domestic Violence in the United Kingdom: Challenges and Opportunities." Nicola Harwin. Violence Against Women, 6 2006; vol. 12: pp. 556 - 567.
* [http://www.esrc.ac.uk/ESRCInfoCentre/Plain_English_Summaries/governance_and_citizenship/participation/index29.aspx?ComponentId=15319&SourcePageId=11722 Economic and Social Research Council FIndings: Gendered links between economic development and democracy]
* [http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~jborocz/IS..pdf "What Is the EU?" József Böröcz and Mahua Sarkar. International Sociology, 6 2005; vol. 20: pp. 153 - 173.]
* "Telling feminist stories". Clare Hemmings. Feminist Theory, 8 2005; vol. 6: pp. 115 - 139.
* "Civic Activity – Feminine Activity?: Gender, Civil Society and Citizenship in Post-Soviet Russia". Suvi Salmenniemi. Sociology, 10 2005; vol. 39: pp. 735 - 753.
* "The Complexity Turn". John Urry. Theory, Culture & Society, 10 2005; vol. 22: pp. 1 - 14.
* "Passing on Feminism: From Consciousness to Reflexivity?" Lisa Adkins. European Journal of Women's Studies, 11 2004; vol. 11: pp. 427 - 444.
* [http://www.gnn.gov.uk/content/detail.asp?NewsAreaID=2&ReleaseID=128231&print=true Government News Network "The Cost of Domestic Violence" September 1, 2004]
* "Family-Military Relations in Israel as a Genderizing Social Mechanism" Hanna Herzog. Armed Forces & Society, 10 2004; vol. 31: pp. 5 - 30.
* "The Radical Right Gender Gap" Terri E. Givens. Comparative Political Studies, 2 2004; vol. 37: pp. 30 - 54.
* "Women with a Mission: Lynda La Plante, DCI Jane Tennison and the Reconfiguration of TV Crime Drama." Deborah Jermyn. International Journal of Cultural Studies, 3 2003; vol. 6: pp. 46 - 63.
* "Emergent Feminist(?)" Identities: Young Women and the Practice of Micropolitics. Shelley Budgeon. European Journal of Women's Studies, 2 2001; vol. 8: pp. 7 - 28.
* "THE EPISTEMOLOGY OF THE GENDERED ORGANIZATION". DANA M. BRITTON. Gender & Society, 6 2000; vol. 14: pp. 418 - 434.
* "Changing Femininity, Changing Concepts of Citizenship in Public and Private Spheres". Madeline Arnot, Helena Araujo, Kiki Deliyanni, and Gabrielle Ivinson. European Journal of Women's Studies, 5 2000; vol. 7: pp. 149 - 168.
* "More power to argument." Axeli Knapp. Feminist Theory, 8 2000; vol. 1: pp. 207 - 223.
* "Aspiring to a politics of alliance": response to Sylvia Walby's 'Beyond the politics of ocation: the power of argument in a global era. Ann Phoenix. Feminist Theory, 8 2000; vol. 1: pp. 230 - 235.
* "Being reasonable, telling stories". Rita Felski. Feminist Theory, 8 2000; vol. 1: pp. 225 - 229
* "Dress to Impress: Employer Regulation of Gay and Lesbian Appearance." P L Skidmore. Social & Legal Studies, 12 1999; vol. 8: pp. 509 - 529.
* "Women's Education in Colonial Tamil Nadu, 1900-1930: The Coalescence of Patriarchy and Colonialism." Padmini Swaminathan. Indian Journal of Gender Studies, 3 1999; vol. 6: pp. 21 - 42.
* "Making Sociology More Inclusive". Margrit Eichler. Current Sociology, 4 1998; vol. 46: pp. 5 - 28.
* "Safety Talk:: Conceptualizing Women's Risk Assessment as a `Technology of the Soul"'. ELIZABETH A. STANKO. Theoretical Criminology, 11 1997; vol. 1: pp. 479 - 499
* "Feminizing Paid Work." Boyd Current Sociology.1997; 45: 49-73. Gender, Education and Employment in Post-Mao China: Issues in Modernisation. Shirin M. Rai. China Report, 2 1993; vol. 29: pp. 1 - 14.
* "Making Connections:" Feminism & Psychology and the BPS `Psychology of Women' Section. Sue Wilkinson. Feminism & Psychology, 11 1996; vol. 6: pp. 477 - 480.
* "DEAR RESEARCHER": The Use of Correspondence as a Method within Feminist Qualitative Research". GAYLE LETHERBY and DAWN ZDRODOWSKI. Gender & Society, 10 1995; vol. 9: pp. 576 - 593.
* "Economic Strategies, Welfare Regimes and Gender Inequality in Employment in the European Union." Diane Perrons. European Urban and Regional Studies, 1 1995; vol. 2: pp. 99 - 120.
* "Media Constructions of Crime". VINCENT F. SACCO. The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 5 1995; vol. 539: pp. 141 - 154.
* "Theorizing European Gender Systems". Simon Duncan. Journal of European Social Policy, 1 1995; vol. 5: pp. 263 - 284.
* "Theorizing Women's Studies Gender Studies and Masculinity:" The Politics of Naming. Diane Richardson and Victoria Robinson. European Journal of Women's Studies, 5 1994; vol. 1: pp. 11 - 27.
* "Gender in the Formation of a Communist Body Politic". Christina Gilmartin. Modern China, 7 1993; vol. 19: pp. 299 - 329.
* "Challenging Practice of Challenging Women? Female Offending and Illicit Drug Use". Probation Journal, 6 1991; vol. 38: pp. 56 - 62.

External links

* [http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/sociology/staff/walby/walby.htm Lancaster University Staff Pages]
* [http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/sociology/research/resalph.htm#uz Online Articles by Author]
* [http://www.womenandequalityunit.gov.uk/index.htm Women and Equality Unit]
* [http://www.routledge.com/shopping_cart/search/search.asp?search=Sylvia+Walby Routledge Listing]
* [http://www.sociology.su.se/cgs/walbycv.doc Curriculum Vitae]
* [http://www.reviewscout.co.uk/Sylvia%20Walby Review Scout Listing]
* [http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/vaw/panelists_pres/walbypresentation.pdf UN Presentation on Violence against women and the Millennium Development Goals]