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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

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Tables and Boxes -- List of Abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introducing Gender and the European Union -- Gender inequalities in Europe -- The EU gender regime: policies, institutions and actors -- Feminist evaluations of the EU gender regime -- This book -- 2 The History of Gender in the European Union -- The beginning: Article 119 on Equal Pay -- The intensification of gender policy in the 1970s -- Incremental development in the 1980s -- Positive action -- Feminist critiques -- Conclusion -- 3 Gendering Political Representation in the European Union -- Improving women's political representation in Europe -- Women in the parliaments of the member states and the European Union -- Women in cabinets in the member states -- Women in the European Commission -- Women in the European Council and the Council of the European Union -- Conclusion -- 4 Policy-Making Processes, Actors and Institutions in the EU from a Gender Perspective -- Policy-making processes and gender in the EU -- Women's policy agencies in the EU -- Civil society groups lobbying for gender equality in the EU -- Co-operation and contestation in 'velvet triangles' -- Conclusion -- 5 The EU Gender Policy: Reconciling Work and Family -- Reconciliation as an example of gender policy -- Legislating for equality: pregnancy, maternity and parental leave directives -- Regulating through soft law: childcare policy -- Conclusion -- 6 Gender Mainstreaming in EU Policy-Making -- The institutionalization of gender mainstreaming in the EU -- Gender mainstreaming in EU development policy -- Assessing gender mainstreaming in the EU -- Gender mainstreaming in EU employment policy -- Conclusion -- 7 Gender Violence in the European Union -- EU policy on trafficking in women: illegal migration and transnational organized crime.

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