基本説明
Scrutinizes the degree to which the state offices for women have actually advanced women's movement interests.
Full Description
Drawing from the work of internationally renowned scholars from the Research Network on Gender, Politics and the State (RNGS), this study offers in-depth analysis of the relationship between state feminism, women's movements and public policy and places them within a comparative theoretical framework. Spain, France, Italy, Germany, Finland, Austria, Belgium, Canada, and the U.S. are all discussed individually.
Contents
1. Introduction, Amy Mazur Part I: The European Context 2. Gender Politics in the European Union: The Context for Job Training , Catherine Hoskyns 3. Women's Strategies and the Family Employment Relationship in Spain, Constanza Tobio 4. A Women-Friendly Employment Administration Pursues Symbolic Policies in Austria, Birgit Buchinger and Sieglinde Katharina Rosenberger Part II: The Debates 5. Caught Between Access and Activism in the Multi-level European Union Labryinth, Katie Verlin Laatikainen 6. A Closed Subsystem and Distant Feminist Demands Block Women-Friendly Outcomes in Spain , Celia Valiente 7. Limited Women's Policy Agencies Produce Limited Results in Italy, Marila Guadagnini 8. Republican Universalism Resists State Feminist Approaches to Gendered Equality in France, Amy Mazur 9: A Shifting Policy Environment Divides the Impact of State Feminism in Finland, Anne Maria Holli 10. Femocrats Work with Feminists and the EU Against Gender-Bias in Ireland, Anne Good 11. Something More is Necessary: The Mixed Achievements of Women's Policy Agencies in Canada, Kathy Teghtsoonian and Joan Grace 12. Federal and State Women's Policy Agencies Help to Represent Women in the USA , Dorothy McBride Stetson 13. Comparative Conclusions, Amy Mazur
