For the best book published the previous year on women and politics.

Year	Author	Title	Publisher
1988	Rebecca E. Klatch	Women of the New Right	Temple University Press
	Jane Mansbridge	Why We Lost the ERA	University of Chicago Press
1989	Zillah Eisenstein	The Female Body and the Law	University of California Press
	Carole Pateman	The Sexual Contract	Stanford University Press
1990	Susan Moller Okin	Justice, Gender and the Family	Basic Books
	Judith Stiehm	Arms and the Enlisted Woman	Temple University Press
1991	Jane Sherron De Hart and Donald G. Matthews	Sex, Gender and the Politics of ERA	Oxford University Press
	Iris M. Young	Justice and the Politics of Difference	Princeton University Press
1992	Nancy Caraway	Segregated Sisterhood: Racism and the Politics of American Feminism	University of Tennessee Press
	Anne Phillips	Engendering Democracy	Pennsylvania State University Press
1993	Virginia Sapiro	A Vindication of Political Virtue: The Political Theory of Mary Wollstonecraft	University of Chicago Press
1994	Cynthia R. Daniels	At Women's Expense: State Power and the Politics of Fetal Rights	Harvard University Press
1995	Barbara J. Nelson and Najma Chowdhury	Women and Politics Worldwide	Yale University Press
1996	Gwendolyn Mink	The Wages of Motherhood: Inequality in the Welfare State, 1917-1942	Cornell University Press
1997	Kristi Anderson	After Suffrage: Women in Partisan and Electoral Politics Before the New Deal	University of Chicago Press
1998	Uma Narayan	Dislocating Cultures: Identities, Traditions, and Third World Feminism	Routledge
1999	Mary Fainsod Katzenstein	Faithful and Fearless: Moving Feminist Protest Inside the Church and Military	Cornell University
2000	Judith Baer	Our Lives Before the Law: Constructing a Feminist Jurisprudence	Princeton University Press
2001	Jean Reith Schroedel	Is the Fetus a Person?	Cornell University Press
	Aili Mari Tripp	Women and Politics in Uganda	University of Wisconsin Press
2002	Sidney Verba, Kay Lehman Schlozman, and Nancy Burns	The Private Roots of Public Action: Gender, Equality, and Political Participation	Harvard University Press
	Joshua Goldstein	War and Gender: How Gender Shapes the Ward System and Vice Versa	Cambridge University Press
2003	Louise A. Chappell	Gendering Government: Feminist Engagment with the State in Austrailia and Canada	University of British Columbia Press
2004	Nancy J. Hirschmann	Subject of Liberty: Toward a Feminist Theory of Freedom	Princeton University Press
2005	Saba Mahmood	Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject	Princeton University Press
2006	Valentine M. Moghadam	Globalizing Women: Transnational Feminist Networks	Johns Hopkins University Press