Georgina Waylen is Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Sheffield, UK. She has researched and written extensively on gender and transitions to democracy for over fifteen years. Her articles on this theme have been published in a range of journals including World Politics, Journal of Latin American Studies, Democratization, Third World Quarterly and Comparative Political Studies. She is also the author of Gender in Third Politics (1996) and the co-editor of Gender, Politics and the State (1998) and Towards a Gendered Political Economy (2000).