Towards Gendering Institutionalism (eBook)

Equality in Europe

Heather MacRae, Elaine Weiner (Herausgeber)

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2017
260 Seiten
Rowman & Littlefield International (Verlag)
978-1-78348-998-5 (ISBN)

Infos

This book brings gender to the fore as a critical aspect of institutions and opens up new avenues to interrogate the dynamics of power and change. Casting its empirical lens on the EU it interrogates attempts to bring about more ‘gender just’ polities.

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Gender has traditionally proven to be a 'blind spot' for new institutionalists. This book bring gender to the fore as a critical aspect of institutions and opens up new avenues to interrogate the dynamics of power and change. Casting its empirical lens on the EU, where institutional efforts to realize gender equality are quite pronounced, the book interrogates attempts to bring about more 'gender just' polities - supranationally, nationally, and more locally.The book takes a 'best case' scenario - with explicit transformative aims to the social (gendered) order - in order to illuminate how institutions and their gendering, help and hinder institutional change. In doing so, it aims to: 1) consolidate and expand the theoretical 'toolkit' in terms of synergies between feminism and new institutionalism's various strands; and 2) bring it to bear on the trajectory of Europe's gender equality agenda towards better understanding the institutional and institutionalized challenges to redressing gender inequalities.

Autor

lt;span>Heather MacRae is the Jean Monnet Chair in European Integration and an Associate Professor in Political Science at York University, Canada. Her research focuses on gender politics in the European Union. Her publications include several book chapters as well as articles appearing in journals such as the Journal of Common Market Studies, West European Politics, and Women’s Studies International Forum.

Elaine Weiner is an Associate Professor in Sociology at McGill University, Canada. Her research interests lie at the intersection of gender, work, and Central and East European societies. She is the author of Market Dreams: Gender, Class, and Capitalism in the Czech Republic (2007). She has also published chapters in various books as well as articles in journals such as the European Journal of Women’s Studies, Social Problems, and Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society.

Inhalt

Introduction, Elaine Weiner and Heather MacRae / Part I. Gendering New Institutionalisms / 1. Equality Policies in the EU Through a Feminist Historical Institutionalist Lens, Petra Debusscher and Anna van der Vleuten / 2. Filtering Out, Filtering In: What Place for Gender in European Economic Plans?, Yvonne Galligan / 3. Gender Mainstreaming and EU Climate Change Policy, Gill Allwood / 4. The European Social Fund and the Institutionalization of Gender Mainstreaming in Sweden and Germany, Petra Ahrens and Anne-Charlotte Callerstig / Part II. Refinement and Innovation / 5. Resistance to Implementing Gender Mainstreaming in EU Research Policy, Lut Mergaert and Emanuela Lombardo / 6. Benevolent Contestations: Mainstreaming, Judicialization, and Europeanization in the Norwegian Gender+ Equality Debate, Hege Skjeie, Cathrine Holst, and Mari Teigen / Part III. Growing the Dialogue: Discovering Other Theoretical Synergies / 7. Mainstreaming Gender in EU Immigration and Asylum Policy, Jane Freedman / 8. The Gendered Nature of Economic Governance in the EU: A Key Battleground for Gender Equality, Elisabeth Klatzer and Christa Schlager / 9. Gendering EU Sustainable Development Policy: Political Opportunities for Women’s Groups, Sara Reis / Conclusion: Common Ground and New Terrain, Heather MacRae and Elaine Weiner

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 3.7.2017
• Reihe/Serie: Feminist Institutionalist Perspectives
• Zusatzinfo: 1 Illustrations including: - 1 Tables.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Schlagworte: Democracy • Equality • EU • European Studies • Feminism • Institutions • Sociology
• ISBN-10: 1-78348-998-7 / 1783489987
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78348-998-5 / 9781783489985