The Europeanization of gender equality policies : a discursive-sociological approach / / edited by Emanuela Lombardo and Maxime Forest

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910807663403321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Basingstoke, Hampshire, : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012
• ISBN: 1-283-36086-1; 9786613360861; 0-230-35537-4
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2012.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (263 p.)
• Collana: Gender and politics series
• Altri autori (Persone): LombardoEmanuela; ForestMaxime
• Disciplina: 305.42094; 323.34094; 344.2401/4133
• Soggetti: Women's rights - European Union countries; European Union countries Politics and government
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Tables and Annex; List of Figures; List of Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; Foreword; Notes on Contributors; 1 The Europeanization of Gender Equality Policies: A Discursive-Sociological Approach; 2 'Going Soft'? Analysing the Contribution of Soft and Hard Measures in EU Gender Law and Policy; 3 Meanings and Uses of Europe in Making Policies against Domestic Violence in Central and Eastern Europe; 4 Changing French Reconciliation Policies and the Usages of Europe: Reluctant Europeanization?; 5 Using the EU to Promote Gender Equality Policy in a Traditional Context: Reconciliation of Work and Family Life in Italy6 Comparing the Europeanization of Multiple Inequalities in Southern Europe: A Discursive-Institutionalist Analysis; 7 Swimming against the Tide: Contested Norms and Antidiscrimination Advocacy in Central and Eastern Europe; 8 Use of the Europeanization Frame in Same-Sex Partnership Issues across Europe; 9 Is Gender Equality Soluble into Self-; Governance? Regionalizing and Europeanizing Gender Policies in Spain; 10 Prospects and Challenges for Discursive-Sociological Studies of the Europeanization of Equality PoliciesIndex
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 Using largely unpublished empirical data covering twenty-nine European countries this book adopts a pluralistic perspective to explore the complex and often divergent gender and other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.