Making Gender Equality Happen: Knowledge, Change and Resistance in EU Gender Mainstreaming: Gender and Comparative Politics
Autor Rosalind Cavaghanen Limba Engleză Hardback – 25 mai 2017
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’.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781138998735
ISBN-10: 1138998737
Pagini: 242
Ilustrații: 5 Line drawings, black and white; 1 Tables, black and white; 5 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Gender and Comparative Politics
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1138998737
Pagini: 242
Ilustrații: 5 Line drawings, black and white; 1 Tables, black and white; 5 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Gender and Comparative Politics
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
Public țintă
Postgraduate and UndergraduateCuprins
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
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
Notă biografică
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.
Recenzii
'Feminist theory meet feminist praxis! This eminently readable and intellectually engaging book looks at the gap between official policies about gender equality in the European Union, which are many, and actual changes in gender relations to be more egalitarian, of which there are few, and asks how this happened. Cavaghan points to EU gender mainstreaming policy as a contested knowledge creation process not only to explain resistance but to understand how change happens when it does -- and how to produce more of it. Feminists who want to reveal, politicize and ameliorate inequalities in organizations should reach immediately for this book and the clear, smart and convincing analysis it offers.' — Myra Marx Ferree, Alice H. Cook Professor of Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
'Politics and gender have to do with the contestation of norms, yet developing effective analytical tools to study this aspect of the field is no easy task. This path-breaking, sophisticated book develops the novel approach to Gender Knowledge Contestation to open the black box of policy implementation of gender mainstreaming in the EU. By systematically unpacking the policy process, it uncovers why and how change towards gender equality is promoted and resisted in EU institutions. It is a fascinating and compelling read that will change your way of looking at politics, gender, and the EU.' — Emanuela Lombardo, Senior Lecturer in Political Science, Madrid Complutense University
'In this text, Rosalind Cavaghan successfully brings together a variety of diverse literatures to develop a nuanced approach, coined "gender knowledge contestation". This approach is novel in its attention to written policies, as well as the ways in which practitioners understand and interpret gender as a concept. As such, Cavaghan opens our eyes to the micro-level of policy making, while keeping the larger macro-level process still very much in view. The book is innovative, well-conceived, accessible and exceptionally well-executed. It offers the researcher and practitioner new tools and ways of thinking about gender and gender mainstreaming. In short, this book is a must read for scholars and practitioners of gender equality in Europe and beyond.' — Heather MacRae, Jean Monnet Chair in European Integration, York University, Toronto
‘Why does Gender Mainstreaming fail or succeed? Rosalind Cavaghan takes the example of the EU’s research policy to analyze this key problem of gender politics. Her interpretative GKC policy tool allows scholars to study how feminist knowledge about the social construction of gender is translated into practical policy-making. Her innovative conceptual tool will be very inspiring for future research. The empirical findings make Cavaghan’s book a must-read for EU, policy, and gender scholars.’ — Gabriele Abels, Jean Monnet Chair of European integration, University of Tübingen
'The book offers a systematic and innovative approach to tackling one of the key questions of EU studies: why is there such a great variation in the adoption and implementation of gender mainstreaming? … The book builds on a literature that has documented the limitations of gender mainstreaming and really unpacks the different ways that mainstreaming can be opposed or frustrated. In doing so, it points to a way forward for activists and scholars seeking to understand how change can be brought about. The book uses a particular case study of the field of research policy, but the methodology and the overall framework could potentially be applied across policy areas, and even to issues besides gender mainstreaming.' — Muireann O'Dwyer, EuropeNow Journal
‘Making Gender Equality Happen constitutes an important step forward in the literature on gender mainstreaming. That one would wish for more is proof of this and amounts to an invitation to others to develop the reorientations that this book initiates.’ — Elisabeth Prügl, Critical Policy Studies
'Politics and gender have to do with the contestation of norms, yet developing effective analytical tools to study this aspect of the field is no easy task. This path-breaking, sophisticated book develops the novel approach to Gender Knowledge Contestation to open the black box of policy implementation of gender mainstreaming in the EU. By systematically unpacking the policy process, it uncovers why and how change towards gender equality is promoted and resisted in EU institutions. It is a fascinating and compelling read that will change your way of looking at politics, gender, and the EU.' — Emanuela Lombardo, Senior Lecturer in Political Science, Madrid Complutense University
'In this text, Rosalind Cavaghan successfully brings together a variety of diverse literatures to develop a nuanced approach, coined "gender knowledge contestation". This approach is novel in its attention to written policies, as well as the ways in which practitioners understand and interpret gender as a concept. As such, Cavaghan opens our eyes to the micro-level of policy making, while keeping the larger macro-level process still very much in view. The book is innovative, well-conceived, accessible and exceptionally well-executed. It offers the researcher and practitioner new tools and ways of thinking about gender and gender mainstreaming. In short, this book is a must read for scholars and practitioners of gender equality in Europe and beyond.' — Heather MacRae, Jean Monnet Chair in European Integration, York University, Toronto
‘Why does Gender Mainstreaming fail or succeed? Rosalind Cavaghan takes the example of the EU’s research policy to analyze this key problem of gender politics. Her interpretative GKC policy tool allows scholars to study how feminist knowledge about the social construction of gender is translated into practical policy-making. Her innovative conceptual tool will be very inspiring for future research. The empirical findings make Cavaghan’s book a must-read for EU, policy, and gender scholars.’ — Gabriele Abels, Jean Monnet Chair of European integration, University of Tübingen
'The book offers a systematic and innovative approach to tackling one of the key questions of EU studies: why is there such a great variation in the adoption and implementation of gender mainstreaming? … The book builds on a literature that has documented the limitations of gender mainstreaming and really unpacks the different ways that mainstreaming can be opposed or frustrated. In doing so, it points to a way forward for activists and scholars seeking to understand how change can be brought about. The book uses a particular case study of the field of research policy, but the methodology and the overall framework could potentially be applied across policy areas, and even to issues besides gender mainstreaming.' — Muireann O'Dwyer, EuropeNow Journal
‘Making Gender Equality Happen constitutes an important step forward in the literature on gender mainstreaming. That one would wish for more is proof of this and amounts to an invitation to others to develop the reorientations that this book initiates.’ — Elisabeth Prügl, Critical Policy Studies
Descriere
Rosalind Cavaghan presents a much needed fresh insight into the mechanisms maintaining the state's production of gender inequality, along with new perspectives on how we can tackle them. Making Gender Equality Happen argues that we must examine why so many policy makers can't understand how to 'mainstream gender'. To do this, Cavaghan develops a new methodological and theoretical perspective Gender Knowledge Contestation Analysis and applies it to examine how Gender Mainstreaming did, and did not, work in the EU's Science and Research policy. Findings provide fresh insights which help us to better understand and implement gender equality policies, in the changing European political context.