This broad ranging new text provides a systematic assessment of the emergence of gender as a significant issue on the EU agenda and of the EU's impact on gender inequality, both in terms of specifically gender-related policies and the gender dimensions of other policies.
JOHANNA KANTOLA is Senior Lecturer in Political Science, University of Helsinki, Finland.
Innehållsförteckning
Introducing Gender and the European UnionThe History of Gender in the European UnionGendering Political Representation in the European UnionPolicy-Making Processes, Actors andInstitutions in the EU froma Gender PerspectiveThe EU Gender Policy: Reconciling Work and FamilyGender Mainstreaming in EU Policy-MakingGender Violence in the European Union'Tackling Multiple Discrimination': Gender andIntersecting InequalitiesGendering Europeanization in the Enlarged UnionConclusion.