Description
This Handbook maps the expanding field of gender and EU politics, giving an overview of the fundamentals and new directions of the sub- discipline, and serving as a reference book for (gender) scholars and students at different levels interested in the EU.
In investigating the gendered nature of European integration and gender relations in the EU as a political system, it summarizes and assesses the research on gender and the EU to this point in time, identifies existing research gaps in gender and EU studies and addresses directions for future research. Distinguished contributors from the US, the UK and continental Europe, and from across disciplines from political science, sociology, economics and law, expertly inform about gender approaches and summarize the state of the art in gender and EU studies.
The Routledge Handbook of Gender and EU Politics provides an essential and authoritative source of information for students, scholars and researchers in EU studies/ politics, gender studies/ politics, political theory, comparative politics, international relations, political and gender sociology, political economy, European and legal studies/ law.
Table of Contents
1. Whose Story is it Anyway? Studying European Integration with a Gender Lens
Gabriele Abels and Heather MacRae
PART 1: Gendering the EU: Theoretical Perspectives
Thematic introduction
2. The EU as a Gender Equality Regime: A Core Research Concept
Angelika von Wahl
3. Europeanization
Maxime Forest
4. Social Constructivism
Emanuela Lombardo and Johanna Kantola
5. Feminist Institutionalism
Heather MacRae and Elaine Weiner
6. Feminist Political Economy and its Explanatory Promise
Rosalind Cavaghan and Anna Elomäki
7. EU, Men and Masculinities
Jeff Hearn, Katarzyna Wojnicka, Iva Šmídová and Keith Pringle
8. The EU Approach to Intersectional Discrimination in Law
Iyiola Solanke
PART 2: Gendering the EU Polity and Structures of Governance
Thematic introduction
9. European Parliament
Petra Ahrens and Lise Rolandsen Agustín
10. Gendering the Council System
Gabriele Abels
11. Gender Equality and the European Commission
Miriam Hartlapp, Henriette Müller and Ingeborg Tömmel
12. The European External Action Service
Laura Chappell
13. The Politics of Gender in the Field of European Agencies
Sophie Jacquot and Andrea Krizsan
14. The Court of Justice of the EU and Judicial Politics
Jessica Guth and Sanna Elfving
PART 3: Gendered Politics in the EU
Thematic introduction
15. Enlargement
Cristina Chiva
16. Gender and EU Citizenship
Birte Siim and Monika Mokre
17. The Privilege of (Defining) Knowledge: Gender Differences in Political Knowledge across Europe
Jessica Fortin-Rittberger and Lena Ramstetter
18. Civil Society
Sabine Lang
19. Party Politics
Petra Ahrens and Lise Rolandsen Augustín
PART 4: Gender Equality and EU Policies
Thematic introduction
20. Social and Employment Policy
Susan Milner
21. Economic and Monetary Union
Alexandra Scheele
22. Trade Policies
Maria García
23. Development Policy
Petra Debusscher
24. Gender and EU Climate Policy
Gill Allwood
25. Research Policy
Marcela Linková and Lut Mergaert
26. Security and Defense Policy
Hanna L. Muehlenhoff
27. Migration and Asylum Policy
Ulrike Krause and Helen Schwenken
28. Violence against Women and Gender-based Violence
Conny Roggeband
PART 5: A Gender Lens on Key Issues and Debates
Thematic introduction
29. The Populist Challenge to Gender Equality
Birte Siim and Christina Fiig
30. Economic Crisis and the Politics of Austerity
Johanna Kantola and Emanuela Lombardo
31. The Gender Story of Brexit: From Under-representation of Women to Marginalisation of Equality
Roberta Guerrina and Annick Masselot
