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Patricia A. Boling
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science
Ph.D., Political Science, University of California, Berkeley, 1984
M.A., Political Science, University of California, Berkeley, 1978
B.A., Politics, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1975
Office: BRNG 2256M.A., Political Science, University of California, Berkeley, 1978
B.A., Politics, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1975
Office Phone: (765) 494-3711
Email: boling@purdue.edu
Specialization: Women in Japan; Japanese Society and Politics
Professor Boling teaches half-time in Political Science and half-time in Women’s Studies. She has written Privacy and the Politics of Intimate Life (Cornell, 1996), and edited, Expecting Trouble: Surrogacy, Fetal Abuse, and New Reproductive Technologies (Westview, 1995). Her research deals broadly with how problems rooted in private life (e.g., the family, sexuality, reproductive matters, intimate relationships) come to be understood as political issues, a theme which she has played out with respect to feminist democratic theory, and is currently pursuing with respect to comparing family policies and democratic responsiveness in France, Germany, Japan, and the United States.