Gender and the European Union

This broad ranging new text provides a systematic assessment of the emergence of gender as a significant issue on the EU agenda and of the EU''s impact on gender inequality, both in terms of specifically gender-related policies and the gender dimensions of other policies.>

List of contents

Introducing Gender and the European Union
The History of Gender in the European Union
Gendering Political Representation in the European Union
Policy-Making Processes, Actors andInstitutions in the EU froma Gender Perspective
The EU Gender Policy: Reconciling Work and Family
Gender Mainstreaming in EU Policy-Making
Gender Violence in the European Union
'Tackling Multiple Discrimination': Gender andIntersecting Inequalities
Gendering Europeanization in the Enlarged Union
Conclusion.

About the author

Johanna Kantola

Product details

• Authors: J. Kantola, Johanna Kantola, KANTOLA JOHANNA
• Publisher: Macmillan
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.07.2010
• EAN: 9780230542327
• ISBN: 978-0-230-54232-7
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: European Union; The European Union Series; The European Union Series; European Union
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; B, European Politics, European Union, Identity Politics, Politics & government, Political Science and International Studies, Gender studies, gender groups, EU (European Union), European Union Politics, Politics and Gender