Director Of Women's Studies @ CCNY

Professor Joyce Gelb received her Ph.D. from New York University. Her research and scholarly concerns deal with feminist mobilization and gender policy in comparative perspective, particularly in the United States , Japan and England. She has also written on interest groups in urban and national politics in the United States. She has received grants from the Aspen Institute, the Ford and AT&T and Ms Foundations, the US Japan Foundation and the Social Science Research Council, the National Science Foundation and Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. In June 2004, she received a two year grant from the American Association of University Women to undertake collaborative research with a visiting scholar at City College. She has been a visiting professor at Yale , the Associated Kyoto Program and Tokyo University  in Japan in recent years. Her most recent publications are: Gender Policies in Japan and the United States: Comparing Women's Movements, Rights, and Politics, (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003),  Women and Public Policies, (University of Virginia Press,1996); Co-editor, Women in Japan and Korea: Continuity or Change (Temple Univ. Press, 1994), "Feminist Politics in a Hostile Environment: Obstacles and Opportunities" in Giugni, McAdam and Tilly eds. How Do Movements Matter? (Univ. of Minnesota Press, 1999); "Feminist Organizational 'Success' :The State of US Women's Movement Organizations in the 1990's " in Women and Politics, Fall 2000, (with Jennifer Disney); "The Equal Opportunity Law in Japan: A Decade of Change for Japanese Women?" in Law and Policy, Dec. 2000. An article entitled “Feminism, NGO’s and the Impact of the New Transnationalisms” was published in Dynamics of Regulatory Change ed. by Vogel and Kagan ,University of California Press. 2003. Her most recent article , on hospital mergers and the politics of civic advocacy in five American communities (with Colleen Shogan), was published in Social Movement Studies  May 2005. She addressed over eighty  Tokyo bureaucrats in July 2006 on the subject of campaign finance and election regulations in New York City. In July, as well, she  presented a paper on backlash against feminism in the United States and Japan  at the International  Political Science Association meeting in Fukuoka , and addressed the Kitakyushu Women’s Forum on the politics of reproductive rights in Japan and the United States. 

Email: jgelb@gc.cuny.edu
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