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Making Gender Equality Happen: Knowledge, Change and Resistance in Eu Gender Mainstreaming
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In theory, the EUs Gender Mainstreaming policy should mark it out as a trail-blazer in gender equality, but gender equality activists in Europe confront a knotty problem; most civil servants and policy makers cant understand how to mainstream gender.Making Gender Equality Happen argues that we should take this problem seriously. In this book Cavaghan uncovers the social processes that make gender appear irrelevant to so many policy makers using a new method, gender knowledge contestation analysis. Building on this new perspective Cavaghan identifies:barriers to effective gender mainstreaming;mechanisms of resistance to gender mainstreaming; andthe steps towards positive change, which gender mainstreaming can yield, even when results stop short of transformation.These findings present fresh perspectives for policy makers and activists aiming to make gender equality happen. Cavaghans new method also opens fresh avenues in feminist EU studies, which are particularly relevant in the wake of the financial crisis, as the EU seems to be stepping away from its commitments to gender equality.

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Feminist theory meet feminist praxis! This eminently readable and intellectually engaging book looks at the gap between official policies about gender equality in the European Union, which are many, and actual changes in gender relations to be more egalitarian, of which there are few, and asks how this happened. Cavaghan points to EU gender mainstreaming policy as a contested knowledge creation process not only to explain resistance but to understand how change happens when it does and how to produce more of it. Feminists who want to reveal, politicize and ameliorate inequalities in organizations should reach immediately for this book and the clear, smart and convincing analysis it offers.

Myra Marx Ferree, Alice H. Cook Professor of Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison

In this text, Rosalind Cavaghan successfully brings together a variety of diverse literatures to develop a nuanced approach, coined gender knowledge contestation. This approach is novel in its attention to written policies, as well as the ways in which practitioners understand and interpret gender as a concept. As such, Cavaghan opens our eyes to the micro-level of policy making, while keeping the larger macro-level process still very much in view. The book is innovative, well-conceived, accessible and exceptionally well-executed. It offers the researcher and practitioner new tools and ways of thinking about gender and gender mainstreaming. In short, this book is a must read for scholars and practitioners of gender equality in Europe and beyond.

Heather MacRae, Jean Monnet Chair in European Integration, York University, Toronto

Politics and gender have to do with the contestation of norms, yet developing effective analytical tools to study this aspect of the field is no easy task. This path-breaking, sophisticated book develops the novel approach to Gender Knowledge Contestation to open the black box of policy implementation of gender mainstreaming in the EU. By systematically unpacking the policy process, it uncovers why and how change towards gender equality is promoted and resisted in EU institutions. It is a fascinating and compelling read that will change your way of looking at politics, gender, and the EU.

Emanuela Lombardo, Senior Lecturer in Political Science, Madrid Complutense University

Making Gender Equality Happen

Making Gender Equality Happen argues that we should take this problem seriously. In this book Cavaghan uncovers the social processes that make gender appear irrelevant to so many policy makers using a new method, gender knowledge contestation analysis. Building on this new perspective Cavaghan identifies:

barriers to effective gender mainstreaming;
mechanisms of resistance to gender mainstreaming; and
the steps towards positive change, which gender mainstreaming can yield, even when results stop short of transformation.

These findings present fresh perspectives for policy makers and activists aiming to make gender equality happen. Cavaghans new method also opens fresh avenues in feminist EU studies, which are particularly relevant in the wake of the financial crisis, as the EU seems to be stepping away from its commitments to gender equality.

Rosalind Cavaghan is a postdoctoral fellow at Radboud University, Nijmegen, where she arrived in 2013 as a Marie Curie Intra European Fellow. Her research combines the broad themes of European governance, public policy/global political economy and gender. She completed her PhD in Edinburgh, where she worked as a policy consultant, prior to commencing academic research.

Gender and Comparative Politics

Edited by Karen Celis (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) and Isabelle Engeli (University of Bath)

The comparative research conducted in the field of gender and politics today is more than ever resulting in innovative theory building, applying novel research designs and engaging with mainstream political science. Gender and Politics has moved from the margins of political science to the centre. Given the highly critical and activist roots of the gender and politics scholarship, it quasi naturally embraces intersectionality. The Routledge Gender and Comparative Politics Book Series aims to reflect this rich, critical and broad scholarship covering the main political science sub-disciplines with, for instance, gender focused research on political economy, civil society, citizenship, political participation and representation, governance and policy making.

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2. Making Gender Equality Happen

Knowledge, Change and Resistance in EU Gender Mainstreaming

Rosalind Cavaghan

First published 2017
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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

Names: Cavaghan, Rosalind, author.

Title: Making gender equality happen : knowledge, change and resistance in

EU gender mainstreaming / Rosalind Cavaghan.

Description: New York, NY : Routledge, 2017. |

Series: Gender and comparative politics ; 2 | Includes bibliographical

references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2016058688 | ISBN 9781138998735 (hbk : alk. paper)

Subjects: LCSH: Gender mainstreaming--European Union countries. | Sex

discrimination--Government policy--European Union countries.

Classification: LCC HQ1237.5.E85 C38 2017 | DDC 305.3094--dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016058688

ISBN: 978-1-138-99873-5 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-1-315-65854-4 (ebk)

Typeset in Times New Roman
by Saxon Graphics Ltd, Derby

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This book started out as my PhD thesis, and it would not have been possible without the generous financial support of the UK Economic and Social Research Council. I hope other researchers in the future will continue to benefit from such good training and support. For me it was essential. My two supervisors at the University of Edinburgh during that time, Richard Freeman and Fiona Mackay, went well beyond the call of duty many, many times, supplying encouragement and sharp critique in equal measure. Their influence on my thinking has been immense and I will continue to be very grateful to them both for a long time. Similarly, the conversations I had with Gulay Caglar when she generously hosted me at Humbolt Universtaet Berlin during 2010 have a significant impact on this project.

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