Integrating Gender Women, Law and Politics in the European Union

by HOSKYNS, CATHERINE

• ISBN13: 9781859840788
• ISBN10: 1859840787
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-04-17
• Publisher: Verso

Summary

Integrating Gender makes a timely contribution to debate about the social content and internal politics of the European Union. Based on a detailed study of the EU’s policy on women’s rights, it draws together approaches from international relations and feminist theory to develop a powerful critique.

Since the 1970s the European Community’s policy on women’s rights has provided a rare example of a European policy which grants social rights and engages at least to some extent with a mobilized political community. Analysis of policy implementation reveals the complex web which develops when national and transnational state activity interacts with social movements operating in different national and cultural contexts. In Integrating Gender, Catherine Hoskyns tracks these developments across the EU member states using a wide range of primary sources, including original interviews with some of the key women involved at grassroots, professional and official levels. For the first time the prism of feminism is focused on the political, legal and social history of the European Union; the resulting analysis illuminates both the politics of the Union and the reasons for its current crisis of legitimacy.

Author Biography

Catherine Hoskyns is Professor Emerita of European Studies at Coventry University.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Introduction	p. 1
Themes and Issues	p. 5
European Feminism in the Seventies	p. 25
The Adoption of Article 119 on Equal Pay	p. 43
The Involvement of Women	p. 60
Negotiating the Equal Pay Directive	p. 78
Extending Equality	p. 97
Implementing the Directives	p. 116
Progress in a Cold Climate	p. 140
Dealing with Diversity	p. 167
Unity, Diversity, Solidarity	p. 196
Appendix 1 Article 119	p. 212
Appendix 2 EU Legislation and Policy Development on Women's Rights	p. 213
Appendix 3 Sex Equality Provisions in Eight Member States 1970-95	p. 216
Appendix 4 Women and Parliamentary Representation	p. 221
Appendix 5 Equal Opportunities in the European Commission	p. 224
Appendix 6 Data on Women in the EU - Comparative Statistics	p. 226
Select Bibliography	p. 236
Index	p. 243
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