In addition to more than 100 articles in peer reviewed academic journals, True has been an author or editor of more than a dozen books.[1] She has been the sole author of multiple books, including Gender, globalization, and postsocialism: The Czech Republic after communism (2003).[2]
In her 2012 book, The political economy of violence against women, True addresses the apparent paradox that significant recent legislation around the world with the stated purpose of decreasing violence against women had not managed to substantially reduce the problem.[3] She does so by studying what causes violence against women to occur in the first place, from the origins of domestic violence to war crimes targeting women.[3] She develops an approach based on political economy.[4] True argues that violence against women arises inextricably from inequality, poverty, and the gendered division of household labour, as well as broader phenomena like militarism.[5] This provides an explanation for violence against women in terms of social and economic processes at the local, regional, and global levels, from violence at the home to the tendency for international financial crises to disproportionately affect the well-being of women.[6] The book takes a feminist economic approach to the study of human rights using existing data, case studies, and new analyses.[7]The political economy of violence against women won the Best Book Award from the Human Rights Section of the American Political Science Association in 2013,[8] the 2013 International Political Economy Book Prize from the British International Studies Association, and the Australian Political Science Association's Carole Pateman book prize for gender and politics.[9] It also received the annual book prize from the International Political Economy working group of the British International Studies Association,[10] and was listed in the "best selling" section of the Book Authority list of the 100 best selling gender studies books of all time.[11]
^Bowman, Ann O'M; Sanders, Lynn M.; Prugl, Elisabeth (1 February 2005). "Review Gender, globalization, and postsocialism: The Czech Republic after communism". The Journal of Politics. 67 (1): 313–314. doi:10.1111/j.1468-2508.2005.00318_17.x. S2CID153929137.
^ abMontoya, Celeste (March 2014). "Review of The political economy of violence against women". Perspectives on Politics. 12 (1): 216–218. doi:10.1017/S1537592714000206. S2CID145768852.
^Cockey, Marion (1 January 2015). "Review of The political economy of violence against women". Contemporary Sociology. 44 (1): 127–128. doi:10.1177/0094306114562201ccc. S2CID146759371.
^Chee, Liberty L. (27 March 2014). "Review of The political economy of violence against women". Australian Journal of International Affairs. 68 (3): 379. doi:10.1080/10357718.2014.908493. S2CID153384290.
^Confortini, Catia C. (1 April 2013). "Review of The political economy of violence against women". Global Governance. 19 (2): 327. doi:10.1163/19426720-01902010.
^Kohli, Ambika (2 October 2015). "Review of The political economy of violence against women". Journal of Women, Politics & Policy. 38 (4): 498–500. doi:10.1080/1554477X.2015.1083738. S2CID146132725.
^"Best Book Award". American Political Science Association. 2019. Retrieved 14 April 2020.