The Europeanization of Gender Equality Policies [electronic resource] : A Discursive-Sociological Approach /
Lombardo, Emanuela.author.
Forest, Maxime.author.
A discursive-sociological approach to the Europeanization of gender and other equality policies. Using largely unpublished empirical data covering twenty-nine European countries this book adopts a pluralistic perspective to explore the complex and often divergent gender and other equality policy outputs of Europeanization.
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Tables and Annex; List of Figures; List of Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; Foreword; Notes on Contributors; 1 The Europeanization of Gender Equality Policies: A Discursive-Sociological Approach; 2 'Going Soft'? Analysing the Contribution of Soft and Hard Measures in EU Gender Law and Policy; 3 Meanings and Uses of Europe in Making Policies against Domestic Violence in Central and Eastern Europe; 4 Changing French Reconciliation Policies and the Usages of Europe: Reluctant Europeanization?
5 Using the EU to Promote Gender Equality Policy in a Traditional Context: Reconciliation of Work and Family Life in Italy6 Comparing the Europeanization of Multiple Inequalities in Southern Europe: A Discursive-Institutionalist Analysis; 7 Swimming against the Tide: Contested Norms and Antidiscrimination Advocacy in Central and Eastern Europe; 8 Use of the Europeanization Frame in Same-Sex Partnership Issues across Europe; 9 Is Gender Equality Soluble into Self-Governance? Regionalizing and Europeanizing Gender Policies in Spain
10 Prospects and Challenges for Discursive-Sociological Studies of the Europeanization of Equality PoliciesIndex
Includes bibliographical references and index.
A discursive-sociological approach to the Europeanization of gender and other equality policies. Using largely unpublished empirical data covering twenty-nine European countries this book adopts a pluralistic perspective to explore the complex and often divergent gender and other equality policy outputs of Europeanization.
Political science.
Political sociology.
Europe—Politics and government.
European Union.
Sociology.
Public administration.
Political Science.
Political Sociology.
European Politics.
European Union Politics.
Gender Studies.
Public Administration.