The Europeanization of Gender Equality Policies: A Discursive-Sociological Approach [Hardcover]

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 Using largely unpublished empirical data covering?twenty-nine?European countries this book adopts a pluralistic perspective to explore the complex and often divergent gender and other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.The Europeanization of Gender Equality Policies:?a?Discursive-Sociological Approach; M.Forest & E.Lombardo 'Going Soft'? Analysing the Contribution of Soft and Hard Measures in EU Gender Law and Policy; F.Beveridge Meanings and Uses of Europe in Making Policies against Domestic Violence in Central and Eastern Europe; A.Krizsan & R.Popa Changing French Reconciliation Policies and the Usages of Europe: Reluctant Europeanization?; S.Jacquot , C.Ledoux & B.Palier Using the EU to Promote Gender Equality Policy in a Traditional Context: Reconciliation of Work and Family Life in Italy; A.Don? Comparing the Europeanization of Multiple Inequalities in Southern Europe:?a Discursive Institutionalist Analysis; E.Lombardo & M.Bustelo Swimming Against the Tide: Contested Norms and Antidiscrimination Advocacy in Central and Eastern Europe; A.Buzog?ny Use of the Europeanization Frame in Same-Sex Partnership Issues across Europe; R.Kuhar Is Gender Equality Soluble into Self-Governance? Regionalizing and Europeanizing Gender Policies in Spain; A.Alonso & M.Forest Prospects and Challenges for Discursive-Sociological Studies of the Europeanization of Equality Policies; E.Lombardo & M.ForestALBA ALONSO PhD candidate in Political Science at the University of Santiago de Compostela, SpainFIONA BEVERIDGE Professor and Head of the School of Law and Social Justice at the University of Liverpool, UKMAR?A BUSTELO Associate Professor at the Faculty of Political Science and Sociology of the Complutense University, Madrid, Spain ARON BUZOGANY Researcher at the German Public Administration Research Institute in Speyer, GermanyALESSIA DON? Lecturer in Politl³Ž