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Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Gender and the Politics of the Economic Crisis in Europe -- Introduction -- Feminist Approaches to Analysing the Economic Crisis -- Gendering the Politics of the Crisis -- Austerity Politics, Institutional Changes and Gender Equality Policy in the EU -- The Europeanization of Gender Equality and Policies in Times of Crisis -- Gender and Intersectional Struggles Around Austerity Politics in Europe -- The Content of This Book -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 2: A Policy in Crisis. The Dismantling of the EU Gender Equality Policy -- Introduction -- Towards a Rights Policy -- Institutional Shifts and Interests Evolution: Structures and Actors in Gender Equality -- The New Cognitive Framework of Gender Equality -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 3: The Gender Politics of EU Economic Policy: Policy Shifts and Contestations Before and After the Crisis -- Introduction -- Gender in EU Strategic Policy -- Contesting Gender in 'Mainstream' EU Policy -- Gender Knowledge Contestation Analysis -- Obscuring Gender Inequality in Mainstream Economic Policy: Insights from Feminist Political Economy -- Gender Knowledge in EU Economic Policies Before 'the Crisis' -- EU 'Micro'-Economic Policy: 1997 to 2005 -- EU 'Macro'-Economic Policy: 1992 to 2005 -- Comparing Gender Knowledge in Micro- and Macro-Economic Policies Before the Crisis -- Policy Shifts in the Balance Between Micro- and Macro-Economic Policies: The 2005 Integrated Guidelines for Growth and Jobs -- Policy Development and Contestation in EU Crisis Responses 2009-2011: The Europe 2020 Strategy -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 4: Opportunity and Setback? Gender Equality, Crisis and Change in the EU -- Introduction -- Feminist Historical Institutionalism

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

"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"--

Offers insights into social science debates by analyzing feminist theories of the state. This book argues that we need feminist tools for analyzing states and focuses on two debates, domestic violence and childcare, as areas where feminists discursively construct the state