Gendering the European Parliament: Structures, Policies, and Practices [Paperback]

This important collection addresses key issues about both new and continuing actions of the European Parliament, covering policy areas for which the EU has responsibilities and commitments to democracy and diversity as well as gender equality. The book presents cutting-edge research, drawing on the analysis of an up-and-coming young cohort of experts as well as established scholars. A must read.This timely and important book allows scholars to understand the genderedness of the European Parliament (EP) at a crucial moment for democracy, when the EP has strengthened its powers simultaneously with the growth of populist, right-leaning parties. The brilliant analysis of actors dynamics, institutionalization, and discursive contestation presents the European Parliament as a multifaceted arena of democratic power struggles in which feminist empowerment co-exists with opposition to gender equality.This is a timely collection that not only demonstrates the agency of the European parliament in shaping European norms and practices, but also provides an important feminist dimension to the study of a key institution of European integration This book is a must read for those interested in parliamentary agency, EU integration and gender equality promotion and institutionalisation within the European institutions.This book provides a multi-faceted innovative analysis of the European Parliament by studying it comprehensively from a gender perspective, addressing changes and continuities.Gendering the European Parliament: Structures, Policies and Practices provides a multifaceted innovative analysis of the EP by studying it comprehensively from a gender perspective addressing changes and continuities. It asks how and why the EP, as an institution, is gendered and what the gendered impacts of recent changes are when it comes to the structures, policies and practices of the EP. This collection brings together scholars from a variety of different disciplines (sociology, political sl“„