Full Description
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.
Contents
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
