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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.
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.
European institutions have begun to elaborate a distinctive gender
regime. Relying on a largely liberal understanding of equality,
European measures are frequently at odds with established policies
in a number of member states, especially those where a male
breadwinner/female caregiver regime predominates. This thesis
examines the way in which European initiatives, inspired by the
liberal gender regime, have fed into policy debates and reforms in
Germany, a notoriously resilient male breadwinner state and a
"laggard" in European gender policy. Three case studies (drawing on
policy from the 1970s until 2005) are used to explore tensions
between the nascent European gender regime and Germany's gender
regime. The findings suggest that Europeanization of the German
gender regime has been uneven and incomplete. Although the German
gender regime cannot thus be said to have been transformed, the
changes that have been introduced are contributing to the emergence
of a hybrid regime, incorporating aspects of both the male
breadwinner and the dual earner model.
The authors engage a dialogue between European integration theories
and gender studies. The contributions illustrate where and how
gender scholarship has made creative use of integration theories
and thus contributes to a vivid theoretical debate. The chapters
are designed to make gender scholarship more visible to integration
theory and, in this way stimulates the broader theoretical debates.
Investigating the whole range of integration theory with a gender
lens, the authors illustrate if and how gender scholarship has made
or can make creative use of integration theories.
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.
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.
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