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Gender Equality on a Grand Tour: Politics and Institutions - the Nordic Council, Sweden, Lithuania and Russia -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction. Gender Equality on a Grand Tour: Politics and Institutions - The Nordic Council, Sweden, Lithuania and Russia -- Theoretical Approaches -- Gender Equality in the Nordic Countries and around the Baltic Sea as a Field of Scholarly Inquiry -- Contents and Structure -- Main Findings -- 2 Gender Equality the Nordic Way: The Nordic Council's and Nordic Council of Ministers' Cooperation with the Baltic States and Northwest Russia in the Political Field of Gender Equality 1999-2010 -- Introduction -- Points of Departure -- The Nordic Council and the Nordic Council of Ministers -- A Nordic Model of Gender Equality -- Bringing Gender Equality on the Political Agenda -- A Difficult Mission -- Utilitarian Politics: The Use of Gender Equality -- Mission Impossible? -- 3 Political Changes and Gender Equality in the Baltic States: The Case of Lithuania -- Introduction -- Politics of Visibility and Recognition in the Baltic States -- Woman Mainstreaming in the Baltic Soviet Socialistic Republics (1940-1990/91) -- Gender Mainstreaming in the Baltic States (1990/91-now) -- Beyond the Management of Equal Opportunities. The Case of Lithuania (1990-2014) -- Conclusions: Mediators and Innovations in Gender Equality Politics in the Baltic States -- 4 I Am Just Looking for a Fair Assessment: The Equal Opportunities Ombudsman in Sweden 1980-2008 -- Introduction -- Starting Point: Influences from UN/EU since the 1960s -- Gender Equality -- Gender Discrimination -- The Transnational Ombudsman -- The Gender Equality Policy Debate -- Conclusion: Gender Equality