Making Gender Equality Happen Knowledge, Change and Resistance in EU Gender Mainstreaming Gender and Comparative Politics Series
Auteur : Cavaghan Rosalind
In theory, the EU?s ?Gender Mainstreaming? policy should mark it out as a trail-blazer in gender equality, but gender equality activists in Europe confront a knotty problem; most civil servants and policy makers can?t understand how to ?mainstream? gender.
Making Gender Equality Happen argues that we should take this problem seriously. In this book Cavaghan uncovers the social processes that make gender appear irrelevant to so many policy makers using a new method, gender knowledge contestation analysis. Building on this new perspective Cavaghan identifies:
- barriers to effective gender mainstreaming;
- mechanisms of resistance to gender mainstreaming; and
- the steps towards positive change, which gender mainstreaming can yield, even when results stop short of ?transformation?.
These findings present fresh perspectives for policy makers and activists aiming to make gender equality happen. Cavaghan?s new method also opens fresh avenues in feminist EU studies, which are particularly relevant in the wake of the financial crisis, as the EU seems to be stepping away from its commitments to gender equality.
Table of Contents
Boxes Tables and Figures
Part I: Gender Change and EU Gender Mainstreaming
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Mainstreaming Gender: Gender and the State
Chapter 3: Understanding Policy as a Knowledge Process
Part II: Empirical Analysis
Chapter 4: Developing and Doing Gender Knowledge Contestation Analysis
Chapter 5: ‘No Data, No Problem, No Policy’: Establishing Gender Mainstreaming in DG Research
Chapter 6: ‘Lets Say We Did Our Homework’: Gender Mainstreaming in ‘Directorate H’
Chapter 7: ‘Anything Pro-active, No.’ Gender Mainstreaming in ‘Directorate N’
Part III Conclusions
Chapter 8: Re-Thinking Gender Mainstreaming: Process, Contestation, and Knowing
Rosalind Cavaghan is a postdoctoral fellow at Glasgow Caledonian University. Her research combines the broad themes of European governance, public policy/global political economy and gender. She completed her PhD in Edinburgh, where she worked as a policy consultant, prior to commencing academic research.
Date de parution : 07-2019
15.2x22.9 cm
Date de parution : 05-2017
15.2x22.9 cm
Thème de Making Gender Equality Happen :
Mots-clés :
Gender Knowledge Contestation Analysis; Directorate General; Gm Implementation; European Commission; Dg Research; European Studies; European Communities Directorate General; Feminist EU Studies; Gm Policy; Gender Equality Policy; GKC Analysis; Gender Implementation; Gender Knowledge; Gender Knowledge Analysis; Gender Equality; Gender Mainstreaming; Gender and Politics; Gender Unit; Interpretative Policy Analysis (IPA); Gm; Public Policy; Policy Issue; EU Gender; SPOs; Gender Biased Policy; Ameliorate Gender Inequality; Gender Inequality Problem; Horizontal Unit; EU's Gender Equality Policy; Abductive Research Strategy; EU Gender Mainstreaming; STS Literature; Critical Frame Analysis; Politicise Gender Inequality; Gender Inequality