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The Politics of Feminist Knowledge Transfer draws together
analytical work on gender training and gender expertise. Its
chapters critically reflect on the politics of feminist knowledge
transfer, understood as an inherently political, dynamic and
contested process, the overall aim of which is to transform
gendered power relations in pursuit of more equal societies,
workplaces, and policies. At its core, the work explores the
relationship between gender expertise, gender training, and broader
processes of feminist transformation arising from knowledge
transfer activities. Examining these in a reflective way, the book
brings a primarily practice-based debate into the academic arena.
With contributions from authors of diverse backgrounds, including
academics, practitioners and representatives of gender training
institutions, the editors combine a focus on gender expertise and
gender training, with more theory-focused chapters.
This book provides a comparative, neo-institutionalist approach to
the different factors impacting state adoption of-or refusal to
adopt-same-sex marriage laws. The now twenty-one countries where
lesbians and gay men can legally marry include recent or
longstanding democracies, republics and parliamentary monarchies,
and unitary and federal states. They all reflect different
positions with respect to religion and the cultural foundations of
the nation. Countries opposed to such legalization, and those
having taken measures in recent years to legally reinforce the
heterosexual fundaments of marriage, present a similar diversity.
This diversity, in a globalized context where the idea of same-sex
marriage has become integral to claims for LGBTI equality and
indeed LGBTI human rights, gives rise to the following question:
which factors contribute to institutionalizing same-sex marriage?
The analytical framework used for exploring these factors in this
book is neo-institutionalism. Through three neo-institutionalist
lenses-historical, sociological and discursive-contributors
investigate two aspects of the processes of adoption or opposition
of equal recognition of same-sex partnerships. Firstly, they reveal
how claims by LGBTIQ movements are being framed politically and
brought to parliamentary politics. Secondly, they explore the ways
in which same-sex marriage becomes institutionalized (or resisted)
through legal and societal norms and practices. Although it adopts
neo-institutionalism as its main theoretical framework, the book
incorporates a broad range of perspectives, including scholarship
on social movements, LGBTI rights, heterosexuality and social
norms, and gender and politics.
This book provides a comparative, neo-institutionalist approach to
the different factors impacting state adoption of-or refusal to
adopt-same-sex marriage laws. The now twenty-one countries where
lesbians and gay men can legally marry include recent or
longstanding democracies, republics and parliamentary monarchies,
and unitary and federal states. They all reflect different
positions with respect to religion and the cultural foundations of
the nation. Countries opposed to such legalization, and those
having taken measures in recent years to legally reinforce the
heterosexual fundaments of marriage, present a similar diversity.
This diversity, in a globalized context where the idea of same-sex
marriage has become integral to claims for LGBTI equality and
indeed LGBTI human rights, gives rise to the following question:
which factors contribute to institutionalizing same-sex marriage?
The analytical framework used for exploring these factors in this
book is neo-institutionalism. Through three neo-institutionalist
lenses-historical, sociological and discursive-contributors
investigate two aspects of the processes of adoption or opposition
of equal recognition of same-sex partnerships. Firstly, they reveal
how claims by LGBTIQ movements are being framed politically and
brought to parliamentary politics. Secondly, they explore the ways
in which same-sex marriage becomes institutionalized (or resisted)
through legal and societal norms and practices. Although it adopts
neo-institutionalism as its main theoretical framework, the book
incorporates a broad range of perspectives, including scholarship
on social movements, LGBTI rights, heterosexuality and social
norms, and gender and politics.
EU member states and candidate countries are increasingly exposed
to the domestic impact of EU regulations, policy instruments, and
discourses in the fields of gender equality and antidiscrimination.
This impact not only affects national or subnational legislations
and equality machineries, but also the framing and the wording of
these policies, providing domestic actors with new resources and
opportunity structures. This book explores the divergent policy
outputs in the member states as regards the making of gender and
other equalities, bringing together the most recent insights from
Europeanization and gender scholars from a discursive-sociological
perspective. Using largely unpublished empirical data, the book
addresses policy issues ranging from gender violence to
reconciliation and antidiscrimination policies, through case
studies and comparisons covering up to 29 European countries. The
result is a book that provides us with a more realistic and complex
picture of Europeanization processes.
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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