The europeanization of gender equality policies: a discursive-sociological approach

A discursive-sociological approach to the Europeanization of gender and otherequality 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 Using largely unpublished empirical data covering twenty-nine European countries this book adopts a pluralistic perspective to explore the complex and often divergent gender and other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. EMANUELA LOMBARDO Ramón y Cajal Researcher at the Faculty of Political Science of Complutense University, Madrid, Spain, and Researcher in the European QUING project. Her research interests concern gender equality policies, particularly in the European Union and Spain. She is co-editor, with Petra Meier andMieke Verloo, of 'The Discursive Politics of Gender Equality. Stretching, Bending, and Policymaking' (2009). MAXIME FOREST QUING Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Complutense University, Madrid, Spain. His main research interests include the Europeanization of gender policies at the national and sub-national levels, policy transfers and women's representation. He has published numerous articles in international peer-reviewed journals and chapters in edited volumes. INDICE: The Europeanization of Gender Equality Policies: a Discursive-Sociological Approach; 'M.Forest' & 'E.Lombardo - ''Going Soft'? Analysing the Contribution of Soft and Hard Measures in EU Gender Law and Policy; 'F.Beveridge - 'Meanings and Uses of Europe in Making Policies against Domestic Violence inCentral and Eastern Europe; 'A.Krizsan '& 'R.Popa - 'Changing French Reconciliation Policies and the Usages of Europe: Reluctant Europeanization?; 'S.Jacquot', 'C.Ledoux' & 'B.Palier - 'Using the EU to Promote Gender Equality Policy in a Traditional Context: Reconciliation of Work and Family Life in Italy; 'A.Donà - 'Comparing the Europeanization of Multiple Inequalities in Southern Europe: a Discursive Institutionalist Analysis; 'E.Lombardo' & 'M.Bustelo - 'Swimming Against the Tide: Contested Norms and Antidiscrimination Advocacy in Central and Eastern Europe; 'A.Buzogány - 'Use of the Europeanization Frame in Same-Sex Partnership Issues across Europe; 'R.Kuhar - 'Is Gender Equality Solubleinto Self-Governance? Regionalizing and Europeanizing Gender Policies in Spain; 'A.Alonso' & 'M.Forest - 'Prospects and Challenges for Discursive-Sociological Studies of the Europeanization of Equality Policies; 'E.Lombardo' & 'M.Forest '

• ISBN: 978-0-230-28439-5
• Editorial: Palgrave MacM
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 264
• Fecha Publicación: 11/11/2011
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés