Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Tables and Annex; List of Figures; List of Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; Foreword; Notes on Contributors; 1 The Europeanization of Gender Equality Policies: A Discursive-Sociological Approach; 2 'Going Soft'? Analysing the Contribution of Soft and Hard Measures in EU Gender Law and Policy; 3 Meanings and Uses of Europe in Making Policies against Domestic Violence in Central and Eastern Europe; 4 Changing French Reconciliation Policies and the Usages of Europe: Reluctant Europeanization?
5 Using the EU to Promote Gender Equality Policy in a Traditional Context: Reconciliation of Work and Family Life in Italy6 Comparing the Europeanization of Multiple Inequalities in Southern Europe: A Discursive-Institutionalist Analysis; 7 Swimming against the Tide: Contested Norms and Antidiscrimination Advocacy in Central and Eastern Europe; 8 Use of the Europeanization Frame in Same-Sex Partnership Issues across Europe; 9 Is Gender Equality Soluble into Self-Governance? Regionalizing and Europeanizing Gender Policies in Spain
10 Prospects and Challenges for Discursive-Sociological Studies of the Europeanization of Equality PoliciesIndex
Summary
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 Using largely unpublished empirical data covering twenty-nine European countries this book adopts a pluralistic perspective to explore the complex and often divergent gender and other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