Gender and the Economic Crisis in Europe

Johanna Kantola is Academy Research Fellow at the University of Helsinki, Finland. Her books include Gender and Political Analysis (with Lombardo, 2017), Gender and the European Union (2010) and Feminists Theorize the State (2006). She is one of the editors of The Oxford Handbook on Gender and Politics (2013) and Palgrave’s Gender and Politics book series. Emanuela Lombardo is Senior Lecturer at Madrid Complutense University, Spain. Her latest books are Gender and Political Analysis (with Kantola, 2017) and The Symbolic Representation of Gender (with Meier, 2014). Recent articles can be found in Politics, European Political Science, Gender, Work and Organization, and Comparative European Politics.

“This book is the political science analysis to complement the economic analysis. … This book is a direct contradiction to the major accounts of the economic crisis that have excluded any consideration of gender. … The book will be read with interest by feminist scholars of the EU and of politics more broadly. But it would also be a very worthwhile read for anyone seeking to understand the new political and economic dynamics of Europe today.” (Muireann O’Dwyer, EuropeNow Journal, europenowjournal.org, July, 2017)

• 1. Studying the economic crisis in Europe from the perspective of gender and politics; Johanna Kantola and Emanuela Lombardo.- 2. Gender Mainstreaming EU Responses to the Financial Crisis: Institutional fragmentation and epistemic boundaries; Rosalind Cavaghan.- 3. EU institutional responses to mainstreaming in time of crisis: Gendered narrative of austerity; Roberta Guerrina.- 4. Towards Symbolic Policy? Dismantling of the EU Gender Equality Policy; Sophie Jacquot.- 5. The ‘Gendered Attack’ of the “Six Pack”: Economic Crisis and its (En)Gendered Trade-offs in the EU; Heather MacRae and Elaine Weiner.- 6. Entrenching traditional gendered vision of production and reproduction under the EU post-financial crisis; Annick Masselot.- 7. Economic Governance in the European Union: Effects on Social Reproduction; Stefanie Wöhl.- 8. Gender equality vs. austerity policies in the Greek crisis: Swimming against the tide; Maria Karamessini and Maria Stratigaki.- 9. Minority Women, Activism and Austerity: Exploring the Intersectional Democratic Deficit in France and Britain; Akwugo Emejulu and Leah Bassell.- 10. The (in)visibility of women and gender in parliamentary discourse during the Portuguese economic crisis (2008-2014); Ana Prata. 11. Gender, political parties and austerity politics in Finland; Anna Elomäki and Johanna Kantola.- 12. Austerity policies in the EU and Spain: changes and struggles around the gender regime; Emanuela Lombardo.- 13. Poland’s Crisis Response: Policy contradictions and irreconcilable objectives; Ania Zbyszewska.- 14. Conclusions for studying gender, politics and the crisis; Johanna Kantola and Emanuela Lombardo.