Title: Gender equality, intersectionality, and diversity in Europe /
Authors: Agustín, Lise Rolandsen.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan,
Year: 2013
Subjects: Women's rights Europe; Sex discrimination Europe.; Feminism Europe; Feminism; Sex discrimination; Women's rights; Comparative politics EU (European Union); Comparative politics EU (European Union); Diskriminierung; Feminism.; Gender studies, gender groups EU (European Union); Gender studies, gender groups EU (European Union); Geschlecht; Geschlechterpolitik; Gleichberechtigung; Human rights EU (European Union); Human rights, civil rights EU (European Union); Politics and Government.; Sex discrimination.; SOCIAL SCIENCE Discrimination & Race Relations.; SOCIAL SCIENCE Minority Studies.; Women's rights.; Europe
Abstract: Analyzing the developments which have characterized EU gender equality policies and women's transnational activism since the introduction of multiple discrimination policies in the 1990s, this book identifies two interrelated challenges: diversity of women's interests, and degendering of policies. Drawing on discursive policy analysis, it addresses the interaction between policies, institutions and civil society actors in relation to gender equality, diversity and intersectionality at the European level. Rolandsen Agustín successfully integrates the concepts of diversity and gender equality into a contextualized approach to analyzing transnational intersectionality. This unique approach focuses on processes of institutionalization and mobilization, which are addressed in relation to the institutional setup of the EU, its policies and policymaking structures, as well as transnational civil society mobilization and interaction with EU institutions.
Contents: Introduction: Challenges to European Union Gender Equality Policies -- 1. Policymaking, Institutionalization and Collective Mobilization: a Model for Transnational Intersectional Analysis -- 2. Gender and Other Inequalities in the Institutionalization of 'Multiple Discrimination' -- 3. Minority Intersectional Constituencies and Women's Collective Mobilization at the European Level -- 4. Genderbased Violence and the Framing of Equality Policies -- 5. Transnational Policy Framings: (De)gendering in the Context of Institutionalization -- 6. Problematizing the 'Gendered Other': Integration, Violence and Culturalization.