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Title

The Europeanization of gender equality policies : a discursive-sociological approach / edited by Emanuela Lombardo and Maxime Forest.

Publication

Basingstoke ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

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Additional Authors

• Lombardo, Emanuela
• Forest, Maxime, 1976-

Description

xix, 242 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.

Summary

EU member states and candidate countries are increasingly exposed to the domestic impact of EU regulations, policy instruments, and discourses in the fields of gender equality and antidiscrimination. This impact not only affects national or subnational legislations and equality machineries, but also the framing and the wording of these policies, providing domestic actors with new resources and opportunity structures. This book explores the divergent policy outputs in the member states as regards the making of gender and other equalities, bringing together the most recent insights from Europeanization and gender scholars from a discursive-sociological perspective. Using largely unpublished empirical data, the book addresses policy issues ranging from gender violence to reconciliation and antidiscrimination policies, through case studies and comparisons covering up to 29 European countries. The result is a book that provides us with a more realistic and complex picture of Europeanization processes. -- Publisher description.

Series Statement

Gender and politics series

Uniform Title

Gender and politics (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))

Subject

• European Union
• Women's rights > Government policy > European Union countries
• Gender mainstreaming > European Union countries
• Equality > European Union countries
• Egalité des chances
• Discrimination
• Européanisation
• UE/CE Droit
• UE/CE Union européenne
• Politique sociale
• Conciliation de la vie professionnelle et familiale
• UE/CE Etats membres
• Politics and Government
• Equality
• Gender mainstreaming
• Women's rights > Government policy
• Antidiskriminierungsrecht
• Gleichberechtigung
• Mitgliedsstaaten
• Politik
• Égalité des sexes
• GENDER EQUALITY
• GENDER DISCRIMINATION
• EUROPE
• European Union countries
• Europäische Union

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

The Europeanization of gender equality policies : a discursive-sociological approach / Maxime Forest and Emanuela Lombardo -- 'Going soft'? Analysing the contribution of soft and hard measures in EU gender law and policy / Fiona Beveridge -- Meanings and uses of Europe in making policies against domestic violence in central and eastern Europe / Andrea Krizsan and Raluca Popa -- Changing French reconciliation policies and the usages of Europe : reluctant Europeanization? / Sophie Jacquot, Clémence Ledoux and Bruno Palier -- Using the EU to promote gender equality policy in a traditional context : reconciliation of work and family life in Italy / Alessia Donà -- Comparing the Europeanization of multiple inequalities in southern Europe : a discursive-institutionalist analysis / Emanuela Lombardo and María Bustelo -- Swimming against the tide : contested norms and antidiscrimination advocacy in central and eastern Europe / Aron Buzogány -- Use of the Europeanization frame in same-sex partnership issues across Europe / Roman Kuhar -- Is gender equality soluble into self-governance? Regionalizing and Europeanizing gender policies in Spain / Alba Alonso and Maxime Forest -- Prospects and challenges for discursive-sociological studies of the Europeanization of equality policies / Emanuela Lombardo and Maxime Forest.

ISBN

• 9780230284395
• 0230284396

OCLC

• ocn767527471
• 767527471
• SCSB-14693184

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library