Gender Equality, Intersectionality, and Diversity in Europe [Paperback]

Gender is being marginalized with the increased attention to "multiple discrimination" and civil society landscape at the transnational level is increasingly diversified. The book looks at the processes of (strategic) degendering in EU policy-making and on the interaction between EU institutions and European women's organizations.Introduction: Challenges to European Union Gender Equality Policies 1. Policymaking, Institutionalization and Collective Mobilization: a Model for Transnational Intersectional Analysis 2. Gender and Other Inequalities in the Institutionalization of 'Multiple Discrimination' 3. Minority Intersectional Constituencies and Women's Collective Mobilization at the European Level 4. Genderbased Violence and the Framing of Equality Policies 5. Transnational Policy Framings: (De)gendering in the Context of Institutionalization 6. Problematizing the 'Gendered Other': Integration, Violence and Culturalization

Intersectionality has become the topic of the moment as both a discourse and an institutional process within the EU. Rolandsen-Agustin's analysis of how both dimensions of intersectionality operate is an essential contribution to understanding its promise and its pitfalls for European feminism. It combines attention to the institutionalization of ideas and resources within the frameworks of the EU with consideration of the strategic choices of policy makers and the mobilizations among differently positioned actors in civil society, artfully balancing attention to structure and agency in what feminists are able to do to keep gender on the agenda. By tracing the specifics of the discourse of diversity in the instance of policies about violence against women, this book offers critical theoretical insights into feminism and social policy in Europe. - Myra Marx Ferree, Alice H. Cook Professor of Sociology and Director, European Union Center of Excellence, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA

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