Gendering the European Parliament

Petra Ahrens is Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Fellow at the University of Antwerp, Belgium. Lise Rolandsen Agustín is Associate Professor in the Department of Culture and Global Studies at Aalborg University, Denmark.

List of Abbreviations List of Boxes List of Figures List of Tables Introduction: Gendering the European Parliament: Introducing Structures, Policies, and Practices (Petra Ahrens and Lise Rolandsen Agustín) Part I: Function and History - Gender Equality and the European Parliament The Powers of the European Parliament: Implications for Gender Equality Policy (Gabriele Abels) The European Parliament as a Constant Promoter of Gender Equality: Another European Myth? (Anna van der Vleuten) Staging Power: Constructing Gender in the Debates of the European Parliament, 1999-2014 (Julia Marie Zimmermann) Part II: Strategies and Outreach beyond Parliamentary Affairs Undermining Critical Mass: The Impact of Trialogues and Treaty Reforms on Gender-Sensitive Decision-Making in the European Parliament (Joyce Marie Mushaben) Working against the Tide? Institutionalizing Gender Mainstreaming in the European Parliament (Petra Ahrens) Gendering the EU Budget: Can European Parliament Play the Role of a Gender Budgeting Advocate? (Firat Cengiz) Part III: The Role of MEPs in Steering Gender Equality `Feminist to Its Fingertips¿? Gendered Divisions of Labour and the Committee on Women¿s Rights and Gender Equality (Mary Nugent) Politicisation of Gender Equality in the European Parliament: Cohesion and Inter-Group Coalitions in Plenary and Committees (Markus Warasin, Johanna Kantola, Lise Rolandsen Agustín and Ciara Coughlan) The European Parliament and Irish Female MEPs: Female Political Agency for Gender Equality (Pauline Cullen) Overcoming Male Dominance? The Representation of Women in the European Parliament Delegations of the Post-Communist EU Member States (Cristina Chiva) *Gender*Power*? On the Multiple Relations between Gender and Power in the European Parliament (Petra Meier, Petra Ahrens and Lise Rolandsen Agustín)