The Europeanization of Gender Equality Policies

A Discursive-Sociological Approach

Emanuela Lombardo, Maxime Forest

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2011
• Print ISBN:
  9780230284395
• eBook ISBN:
  9780230355378
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: European Politics
• Index: Politics & International Relations

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 Using largely unpublished empirical data covering twenty-nine European countries this book adopts a pluralistic perspective to explore the complex and often divergent gender and other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.

Table of contents

• 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 Italy
• 6 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 Policies
• Index