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What is the problem of gender inequality in politics? What measures are proposed to solve it? These questions are explored through an analysis of the policy frames on gender inequality in politics in Spain & in the European Union. By applying frame analysis to a selection of official documents, the article reflects on the formulation of gender policies & the (in)consistencies of the latter. Tables, Appendixes, References. Adapted from the source document.

Since Spain joined the European Union, Spanish gender policy has experienced a process of Europeanization that is real but also limited by European & national factors. This argument is based both on the analysis of the transposition of the EU gender equality directives into Spanish legislation, & on interviews of Spanish gender policy actors & civil servants from the Equal Opportunities Unit of the European Commission. References. Adapted from the source document.

Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction -- Feminist political analysis: a link between theory and praxis -- Feminist political analysis within political science -- Diversity of approaches to feminist political analysis -- Outline of the book -- 2 Feminist Political Analysis: Five Approaches -- Women and political analysis -- Gender and political analysis -- Deconstruction and political analysis -- Intersectionality and political analysis -- Postdeconstruction and political analysis -- Conclusions -- Part I Concepts: Chapters 3-5 -- 3 Power -- Women and power -- Gender and power -- Deconstruction and power -- Intersectionality and power -- Postdeconstruction and power -- Conclusions -- 4 Agency -- Women and agency -- Gender and agency -- Deconstruction and agency -- Intersectionality and agency -- Postdeconstruction and agency -- Conclusions -- 5 Institutions -- Women and institutions -- Gender and institutions -- Deconstruction and institutions -- Intersectionality and institutions -- Postdeconstruction and institutions -- Conclusions -- Part II Issues: Chapters 6-8 -- 6 Polity -- Women and polity -- Gender and polity -- Deconstruction and polity -- Intersectionality and polity -- Postdeconstruction and polity -- Conclusions -- 7 Politics -- Women and politics -- Gender and politics -- Deconstruction and politics -- Intersectionality and politics -- Postdeconstruction and politics -- Conclusions -- 8 Policy -- Women and policy -- Gender and policy -- Deconstruction and policy -- Intersectionality and policy -- Postdeconstruction and policy -- Conclusions -- 9 Conclusion -- Summary of the book -- Assessing the five approaches for doing feminist political analysis -- Hegemonies and marginalizations -- Political analysis: the link between theory and praxis -- Bibliography.

1. The symbolic representation of gender : an introduction -- 2. Theorising symbolic representation -- 3. A discursive approach to symbolic representation -- 4. Symbolic representation and the construction of identity -- 5. Symbolic representation and legitimacy -- 6. Symbolic representation and political control -- 7. The relation between descriptive and symbolic representation -- 8. The relation between substantive and symbolic representation -- 9. Power at work in the symbolic representation of gender -- 10. Conclusions.

A discursive-sociological approach to the Europeanization of gender and other equality policies. Using largely unpublished empirical data covering twenty-nine European countries this book adopts a pluralistic perspective to explore the complex and often divergent gender and other equality policy outputs of Europeanization

This article examines the potential of feminist democratic innovations in policy and institutional politics. It examines how feminist democratic innovations can be conceptualised and articulated in local institutions. Combining theories on democratic governance, feminist democracy, social movements, municipalism, decentralisation, gender equality policies and state feminism, it conceptualises feminist democratic innovations in policy and politics as innovations oriented at (a) transforming knowledge, (b) transforming policymaking and public funding, (c) transforming institutions, and (d) transforming actors' coalitions. Through analysis of municipal plans and interviews with key actors, the article examines feminist democratic innovations in the policy and politics of Barcelona's local government from 2015 to 2023. Emerging from the mobilisation of progressive social movements after the 2008 economic crisis, the findings uncover a laboratory of feminist municipal politics, following the election of a new government and self-proclaimed feminist mayor. Critical actors and an enabling political context play a pivotal role in the adoption of this feminist institutional politics. The article concludes by arguing that feminist institutional politics at the local level contribute to democratising policy and politics in innovative ways, in particular encouraging inclusive intersectionality and participatory discourses and practices.

Abstract: The construction of feminist democratic societal projects relies on the production of feminist knowledge and ideas within social movements, as well as academic, professional, and institutional settings. In the context of a rising opposition against democracy and gender, race, and sexuality equality at a global level, the European Union has launched the call Feminisms for a New Age of Democracy with the purpose of supporting knowledge production about opposition to gender equality in Europe and feminist democratic responses. The CCINDLE (Co-creating Inclusive Intersectional Democratic Spaces across Europe) project is one of the funded research projects under this call. CCINDLE's objectives include analyzing not only anti-gender politics and the problems that they create for democracy in Europe but especially feminist movements' and institutional responses to anti-gender and anti-democratic forces. The project aims to co-create feminist knowledge with the actors that are already working to counter the antidemocratic project that anti-gender movements and far right parties are trying to construct, and to envision feminist futures building on theories and practices of intersectional justice, inclusion, and participation in European democracies.

La necessità di gestire il dinamismo del paesaggio forestale italiano, significativamente segnato dalla crescente estensione delle superfici boschive, e, al contempo, la fruizione delle utilità ecosistemiche fornite dal bosco ha condotto all'aggiornamento della legislazione forestale con specifico riferimento anche al tema del paesaggio: in particolare, all'art. 7, comma 2 del decreto legislativo n. 34/2018 è previsto che con i piani paesaggistici regionali, ovvero con specifici accordi di collaborazione stipulati tra le Regioni e i competenti organi territoriali del Ministero della cultura, vengano concordati gli interventi riguardanti la gestione forestale nelle aree soggette a vincolo paesaggistico provvedimentale (art. 136 del decreto legislativo n. 42/2004), nel rispetto di specifiche linee guida che saranno oggetto di un apposito decreto ministeriale. In questa nota vengono fornite alcune riflessioni sul tema, in forma di discussione commentata, unitamente a una disamina esemplificativa della tipologia di interventi da includere nelle linee guida.