The Routledge handbook of gender and EU politics

Cover -- Endorsement -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations and acronyms -- 1 Whose story is it anyway? Studying European integration with a gender lens -- Some remarks on mainstream history -- European integration as 'her- story' - some missing bits and pieces -- Structure and idea of this Handbook -- Note -- References -- Part I Gendering the EU -- 2 The EU as a gender equality regime: A core research concept -- A short overview of gender equality in the EU -- Origins of the "gender regime" approach -- Conceptualizing the EU as a gender equality regime -- The EU gender equality regime since the Great Recession -- Achievements, gaps and future directions -- Conclusion: dismantling, disintegration or defiance -- References -- 3 Europeanization -- "When Europe hits home" -- Europeanization through a gender lens: "going soft" vs. meaning contestation -- De-Europeanization? Gendering Europe in troubled times -- Europeanization "beyond Europe", as conflict or "De-Europeanization" -- Reflecting new trends in the Gender and EU scholarship -- Towards a common research agenda: gender, the new cleavage of Europe? -- References -- 4 Social constructivism -- Mainstream approaches to social constructivism in European Integration theory -- Gendering European Integration theory from social constructivist approaches -- Conclusions -- Note -- References -- 5 Feminist institutionalism -- From new institutionalism to feminist institutionalism -- Feminist institutionalism as a response to new institutionalism -- Central concepts -- Feminist institutionalism in EU studies -- Seeing gender when others are blind -- Agents of change and resistance -- Formal and informal rules and values -- Conceptual openness -- Moving forward -- Where does this take us? -- References.

"This handbook maps the expanding field of gender and EU Politics, giving an overview of the fundamentals and new directions of the sub-discipline, and serving as a reference book for (gender) scholars and students at different levels interested in the EU. In investigating the gendered nature of European integration and gender relations in the EU as a political system, it summarizes and assesses the research on gender and the EU to this point in time, identifies existing research gaps in gender and EU studies and addresses directions for future research. Distinguished contributors from the US, the UK and continental Europe, and from across disciplines from political science, sociology, economics and law, expertly inform about gender approaches and summarise the state of the art in gender and EU studies. The Routledge Handbook of Gender and EU Politics provides an essential and authoritative source of information for students, scholars and researchers in EU studies/politics, gender studies/politics, political theory, comparative politics, international relations, political and gender sociology, political economy, European and legal studies/law"--