Changing State Feminism

by Outshoorn, Joyce; Kantola, Johanna

• ISBN13: 9780230516618
• ISBN10: 0230516610
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-11-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This book explores how women's policy agencies have been able to develop, maintain, or enhance their roles in a transformed political context and how women's movements adapted to change in twelve states.

Author Biography

JOYCE OUTSHOORN is Professor of Women's Studies at Leiden University, The Netherlands. JOHANNA KANTOLA is Lecturer in Politics at the University of Helsinki, Finland.

Table of Contents

List of Tables	p. vii
Preface	p. ix
Notes on the Contributors	p. xi
List of Abbreviations	p. xix
Changing State Feminism	p. 1
Australia: the Fall of the Femocrat	p. 20
What Happened to the Model Student? Austrian State Feminism since the 1990s	p. 41
State Feminism and Women's Movements in Belgium: Complex Patterns in a Multilevel System	p. 62
State Feminism Finnish Style: Strong Policies clash with Implementation Problems	p. 82
Women's Policy Agencies, Women's Movements and a Shifting Political Context: Towards a Gendered Republic in France?	p. 102
Gender Governance in Post-unification Germany: Between Institutionalization, Deregulation and Privatization	p. 124
Unfinished Business: Equality Policy and the Changing Context of State Feminism in Great Britain	p. 144
Women's Policy Machinery in Italy between European Pressure and Domestic Constraints	p. 164
Dutch Decay: the Dismantling of the Women's Policy Network in the Netherlands	p. 182
The Evolution of Spanish State Feminism: a Fragmented Landscape	p. 201
Swedish State Feminism: Continuity and Change	p. 224
Women's Policy Agencies and Climate Change in the US: the Era of Republican Dominance	p. 246
Assessing Changes in State Feminism over the Last Decade	p. 266
Bibliography	p. 286
Index	p. 313
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