Product details
- Categories: Discrimination
- Publisher: PALGRAVE-MACMILLAN
- Collection: Palgrave Macmillan - The European Union Series
- ISBN: 9780230542334
- Publication Date: 14/07/2010
- Binding: Paperback
- Number of pages: 288
- Language: English
Summary
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.
Table of contents
Introducing Gender and the European Union
History of Gender and the EU
Gendering Political Representation in the European Union
Actors, Institutions and Gender Equality
The EU Gender Policy: Reconciling Work and Family
Gender Mainstreaming
Feminist Priorities: Gender Violence in the European Union
'Tackling Multiple Discrimination': Gender and Crosscutting Inequalities
Gendering Europeanization in the Enlarged Union
Conclusion