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  • - Gender, Violence and Transformation in Brazil
    af Polly Wilding
    572,95 - 825,95 kr.

    The favelas (slums) of Rio de Janeiro provide an ideal case study since they are renowned for high levels of police and gang violence resulting in high death rates among young black men, causing both outrage and fear. This book foregrounds women's experiences and how different forms of violence overlap and reinforce one another.

  • - A Comparative Study of State Feminism
     
    834,95 kr.

    The results of a cross-national research project on abortion politics in 11 democratic states between the 1960s and 2000, this text examines whether women's policy agencies function as necessary and effective allies of women's movements in their efforts to gain access to power arenas and secure abortion laws that coincide with feminist goals.

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    1.258,95 kr.

    Focusing on the interrelationships between aspects of the welfare state and labour market policies in structuring and transforming gender relations across a broad spectrum of countries, this book argues that policy variation across the countries surveyed can be attributed to a variety of factors.

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    2.350,95 kr.

    This volume examines women's political representation in Eastern Europe and in particular the way in which that representation has evolved since the fall of the Berlin Wall. In addition to shedding light on the democratization of Eastern Europe, the volume provides a useful test for a range of theories of representation.

  • - Neoliberalism, Intersectionality, and the State in Britain and the US
    af E. Evans
    1.190,95 - 1.196,95 kr.

    The Politics of Third Wave Feminisms provides a comparative analysis of contemporary feminist activism in the US and Britain. Drawing upon in depth research undertaken with activists on both sides of the Atlantic, the book explores contentious themes and debates that have occurred over the past twenty years.

  • - A Question of Justice
     
    832,95 kr.

    The collapse of socialist regimes across Southeastern Europe changed the rules of the political game and led to the transformation of these societies. The status of women was immediately affected. The contributors to this volume contrast the status of women in the post-socialist societies of the region with their status under socialism.

  • - Transnational Dynamics in Europe, South America and Southern Africa
     
    744,95 kr.

    This book analyses the diffusion of norms concerning gender-based violence and gender mainstreaming of aid and trade between the EU, South America and Southern Africa. Norm diffusion is conceptualized as a truly multidirectional and polycentric process, shaped by regional governance and resulting in new geometries of transnational activism.

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    734,95 kr.

    The book analyses intersections between gender and diversity through cross-national studies of European public spheres. The approach confronts research on European democracy and the public sphere with gender and diversity research and reflections about European equality and diversity issues are based on new research from a large-scale EU project.

  • - New Approaches to Old Democratic Deficits
     
    620,95 kr.

    An exploration of European integration as seen through a gender lens. This book looks at integration theories, institutional relationships, enlargement, the development of gender law and the role of formal actors, scholars and expert networks in the EU policy-making process. With a focus on gender mainstreaming as a new approach to gender policy.

  • - The Changing Nature of European Equality Regimes
     
    825,95 kr.

    An exploration of the ways that multiple inequalities are being addressed in Europe. Using country-based and region-specific case studies it provides an innovative comparative analysis of the multidimensional equality regimes that are emerging in Europe, and reveals the potential that these have for institutionalizing intersectionality.

  • - Towards a Feminist Institutionalism
     
    660,95 kr.

    Political institutions profoundly shape political life and are also gendered. This groundbreaking collection synthesises new institutionalism and gendered analysis using a new approach - feminist institutionalism - in order to answer crucial questions about power inequalities, mechanisms of continuity, and the gendered limits of change.

  • - New Approaches to Old Democratic Deficits
     
    567,95 kr.

    An exploration of European integration as seen through a gender lens. This book looks at integration theories, institutional relationships, enlargement, the development of gender law and the role of formal actors, scholars and expert networks in the EU policy-making process. With a focus on gender mainstreaming as a new approach to gender policy.

  • - A Rainbow Europe?
    af Dr David Paternotte & Phillip Ayoub
    566,95 - 944,95 kr.

    This book explores the alleged uniqueness of the European experience, and investigates its ties to a long history of LGBT and queer movements in the region. These movements, the book argues, were inspired by specific ideas about Europe, which they sought to realize on the ground through activism.

  • - Transnational Dynamics in Europe, South America and Southern Africa
     
    880,95 kr.

    This book analyses the diffusion of norms concerning gender-based violence and gender mainstreaming of aid and trade between the EU, South America and Southern Africa. Norm diffusion is conceptualized as a truly multidirectional and polycentric process, shaped by regional governance and resulting in new geometries of transnational activism.

  • - Explaining Male Dominance in Parliamentary Representation
    af Elin Bjarnegård
    576,95 - 614,95 kr.

    Parliaments around the world are still overwhelmingly populated by men, yet studies of male dominance are much rarer than are studies of female under-representation. In this book, men in politics are the subjects of a gendered analysis. How do men manage to hold on to positions of power despite societal trends in the opposite direction?

  • - The CEDAW Convention in Context
    af Susanne Zwingel
    407,95 - 1.683,95 kr.

    This book looks at the centerpiece of the international women's rights discourse, the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), and asks to what extent it affects the lives of women worldwide.

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    839,95 kr.

    The book analyses intersections between gender and diversity through cross-national studies of European public spheres. The approach confronts research on European democracy and the public sphere with gender and diversity research and reflections about European equality and diversity issues are based on new research from a large-scale EU project.

  • - The Changing Nature of European Equality Regimes
     
    990,95 kr.

    An exploration of the ways that multiple inequalities are being addressed in Europe. Using country-based and region-specific case studies it provides an innovative comparative analysis of the multidimensional equality regimes that are emerging in Europe, and reveals the potential that these have for institutionalizing intersectionality.

  • - New Approaches to Old Democratic Deficits
     
    825,95 kr.

    An exploration of European integration as seen through a gender lens. This book looks at integration theories, institutional relationships, enlargement, the development of gender law and the role of formal actors, scholars and expert networks in the EU policy-making process. With a focus on gender mainstreaming as a new approach to gender policy.

  • - Towards a Feminist Institutionalism
     
    660,95 kr.

    Political institutions profoundly shape political life and are also gendered. This groundbreaking collection synthesises new institutionalism and gendered analysis using a new approach - feminist institutionalism - in order to answer crucial questions about power inequalities, mechanisms of continuity, and the gendered limits of change.

  • af Jonathan Dean
    567,95 - 759,95 kr.

    Rethinking Contemporary Feminist Politics puts forward a timely analysis of contemporary feminism. Critically engaging with both narratives of feminist decline and re-emergence, it draws on poststructuralist political theory to assess current forms of activism in the UK and present a provocative account of recent developments in feminist politics.

  • - Gender Training and Gender Expertise
     
    283,95 kr.

    The Politics of Feminist Knowledge Transfer draws together analytical work on gender training and gender expertise.

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    1.910,95 kr.

    This book is a systematic consideration of the link between the extreme right and the discourse about developments in regard to gender issues within different national states.

  • - A Question of Justice
     
    990,95 kr.

    The collapse of socialist regimes across Southeastern Europe changed the rules of the political game and led to the transformation of these societies. The status of women was immediately affected. The contributors to this volume contrast the status of women in the post-socialist societies of the region with their status under socialism.

  • - Women's Mobilization, Institutions and Gender Outcomes
    af Georgina Waylen
    567,95 - 767,95 kr.

    Using empirical material from eight case studies in East Central Europe and Latin America as well as South Africa, this book explores the gendered constraints and opportunities provided by processes of democratization.

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    1.217,95 kr.

    While much has been written about Brexit from legal, political, social and economic perspectives, there has been little analysis of the effects of Brexit on women and gender/sexual minorities who have historically been marginalised and whose voices have been less audible in political debates - both nationally and at the European level.

  • - Towards a Theory of Policy Success
    af Season Hoard
    661,95 - 734,95 kr.

    Through a selection of in-depth interviews, a survey of experts working with the European Union and United Nations, and Qualitative Comparative Analysis of policy debates, this text rethinks our understanding of gender expertise and the circumstances that lead to expert success in public policy.

  • af E. Brunner
    709,95 - 839,95 kr.

    Differentiation from the Self has been a unifying feature of war stories since they were first told highlighting that war stories are about the production of identity. Based on analysis of military documents, this book aims to unravel some of the gendered ideologies that underpin the link between state identity and foreign security policy

  • - New Norms, New Knowledge
     
    1.969,95 kr.

    In this book, leading gender scholars survey the contribution of feminist scholarship to new norms and knowledge in diverse areas of political science and related political practice.