Gendering Spanish Democracy
The political transformation of Spain into one of the worlds leading democracies is well established, yet little is known about the differences between men and womens behaviour, experience and achievements during that process. How much did the womens movement contribute to this transformation? How far have policy advocates successfully integrated gender equality into key spheres of public life? Have power relations between women and men been re-balanced? Gendering Spanish Democracy adopts an innovative approach, critically reviewing key institutional processes, policies and systems to reveal the way they function to promote or obstruct gender equity. Both the transition to democracy, equality law reform, and the social welfare regime are put to the test. The ground-breaking efforts of policy-makers to combat the violence, sexual harassment and low political participation that are intrinsic to womens experience are scrutinised, and the constraints on equality in the field of employment and the family critically investigated.
The authors conclude that the recent re-balancing of the gender order in Spain is unexpected and contradictory, being ultimately more effective in political rather than socio-economic arenas.
Gendering Spanish Democracy breaks new ground in applying a systematic gender perspective to the analysis of established democracies, and is the first book in English to reveal the unique features of contemporary Spains evolving gender order.
Monica Threlfall is Senior Lecturer in Politics, Loughborough University, UK, and editor of the International Journal of Iberian Studies. She has edited Consensus Politics in Spain: Insider Perspectives and Mapping the Womens Movement: Feminist Politics and Social Transformation in the North. Christine Cousins is Principal Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Hertfordshire, UK. She is the author of Society, Work and Welfare in Europe, and recent journal articles on gender, employment and social policies. Celia Valiente is Associate Professor, Department of Political Science and Sociology, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain. She is author of numerous articles and chapters published in the US, Europe and Spain.
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2005 Monica Threlfall, Christine Cousins and Celia Valiente
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