New perspectives on gender and political mobilization

This special issue intends to offer new perspectives on gender and political mobilization.We use the term 'political mobilization' to include both the micro-level of participation in political activities and the resulting meso/macro-level of social movements and collective action (Giugni and Grasso, 2019).Indeed, one of the key features of the special issue is to bring together these two levels of analysis and related research traditions.Despite recent trends towards a certain convergence, thus far, these two traditionsone embedded in political science, the other more anchored in sociology -have followed fairly separate tracks (Giugni and Grasso, 2022).Examining gender issues in both the political sociology and social movement literatures promises to shed new light on how gender structures connections between individuals and the political