Eileen McDonagh is an American political scientist. She is a professor of political science at Northeastern University. She has published works on topics like women's participation in politics, gender imbalances in sport, and abortion law.
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Nationality | American |
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Awards | J. David Greenstone Book Prize, APSA |
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Education and academic positions
editMcDonagh graduated from Harvard University with a PhD in government in 1972.[1] In addition to being a member of the political science faculty at Northeastern University,[2] she has been a visiting scholar in the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University,[3] at the Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard University,[4] and at Radcliffe College's Murray Research Center.[5]
Research
editIn addition to journal articles and book chapters, McDonagh has written several books. McDonagh wrote the 1996 book Breaking the Abortion Deadlock: From Choice to Consent. McDonagh builds on arguments by thinkers like Judith Jarvis Thomson and Laurence Tribe, contending that pregnancy constitutes a relationship between a woman and a fetus which relies on the fetus's use of the woman's body, and that consequently the woman's consent should be required for the relationship to be legitimate.[6] From this, McDonagh reasons that abortion is therefore a form of state protection for a woman's right to defend her bodily autonomy.[7] Charlotte Ellertson called Breaking the Abortion Deadlock "the most thought-provoking addition to a stale abortion debate to emerge in 25 years", including "one of the most logical and consistent pro-choice arguments articulated to date".[6]
With Laura Pappano, McDonagh published Playing with the Boys: Why Separate Is Not Equal in Sports in 2008. The authors examine the history of legal and social policies that have caused gender imbalances in both competitive and recreational sports.[8]
In 2009, McDonagh published the book The Motherless State: Women's Political Leadership and American Democracy, in which she proposes that the low proportion of women elected to political office in the United States is partly a function of the overlap between the types of policies that the United States government has traditionally pursued and stereotypes about what tasks are best administered by men and women.[9] The book won the 2010 J. David Greenstone Book Prize for "the best book in history and politics in the past two calendar years" from the American Political Science Association.[10] McDonagh has also studied and spoken about women's participation in the politics of Massachusetts specifically.[11]
McDonagh's work has been cited or she has published in Fast Company,[12] The Christian Science Monitor,[13] and HuffPost.[14][15]
Selected works
edit- Breaking the Abortion Deadlock: From Choice to Consent (1996)
- Playing with the Boys: Why Separate Is Not Equal in Sports, with Laura Pappano (2008)
- The Motherless State: Women's Political Leadership and American Democracy (2009)
Selected awards
editReferences
edit- ^ "Eileen McDonagh". Grant Forward. Retrieved 15 March 2020.
- ^ "Eileen McDonagh Professor of Political Science". Northeastern University. 2018. Retrieved 15 March 2020.
- ^ "Eileen McDonagh". Stanford University. 2010. Retrieved 15 March 2020.
- ^ Gary King; Kay Lehman Schlozman; Norman Nie (25 March 2009). The Future of Political Science: 100 Perspectives. Routledge. p. 265. ISBN 0415997011.
- ^ Pelton, Tom (March 1997). "Right Now". Harvard Magazine. Retrieved 15 March 2020.
- ^ a b Ellertson, Charlotte (9 January 1999). "Book Review Breaking the abortion deadlock: From choice to consent". Studies in Family Planning. 30 (3): 260–262.
- ^ Meyers, Diana Tietjens (1 April 2000). "Review Breaking the Abortion Deadlock: From Choice to Consent". Ethics. 110 (3): 624.
- ^ Polite, F.G. (1 July 2008). "Playing with the Boys: Why Separate Is Not Equal in Sports.(Book review)". CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries. 45 (11): 1985.
- ^ Robinson, Jean C. (1 March 2010). "Review The Motherless State: Women's Political Leadership and American Democracy. By Eileen McDonagh". Perspectives on Politics. 8 (1): 325–326. doi:10.1017/S1537592709992507.
- ^ a b "Politics and History Section Award Recipients". American Political Science Association. 2016. Retrieved 15 March 2020.
- ^ Aspen H. Buck; Aurora E Straus (15 November 2018). "Panelists Talk Challenges Faced by Women in Mass. Politics at Harvard Event". Harvard Crimson. Retrieved 15 March 2020.
- ^ Segran, Elizabeth (15 May 2016). "The (Not So Secret) History Of Sexist Political Campaign Buttons". Fast Company. Retrieved 15 March 2020.
- ^ Laura Pappano; Eileen McDonagh (31 January 2008). "Women and men in sports: Separate is not equal". The Christian Science Monitor. Retrieved 15 March 2020.
- ^ Laura Pappano; Eileen McDonagh (17 November 2011). "Might Pregnancy be a Boon to Female Athletes?". HuffPost. Retrieved 15 March 2020.
- ^ Laura Pappano; Eileen McDonagh (17 November 2011). "Playing With The Boys". HuffPost. Retrieved 15 March 2020.
- ^ a b "Best Paper Award". American Political Science Association. 2019. Retrieved 15 March 2020.