Changing State Feminism

by J. Outshoorn (Editor), J. Kantola (Editor)

Overview

Most Western democracies established women's policy agencies to improve the status of women by the 1990s. One of the book's key questions is how have women's policy agencies been able to develop, maintain or enhance their roles in the transformed political context and how have women's movements adapted to change in twelve states.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349354504
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	01/01/2007
Edition description:	1st ed. 2007
Pages:	329
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

CHRISTINA BERGQVIST Associate Professor of Political Science, Department of Government, Uppsala University, Sweden MARIA BUSTELO Associate Professor of Political Science and Public Administration, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain KAREN CELIS Department of Management Science, Hogeschool Gent, Belgium ALESSIA DONÀ Lecturer in Public Policy Analysis and Comparative Politics, University of Trento, Italy MARILA GUADAGNINI Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Turin, Italy ANNE MARIA HOLLI Research Fellow (Academy of Finland), Department of Political Science, University of Helsinki, Finland SABINE LANG Assistant Professor of European Studies, H.M. Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington, USA JONI LOVENDUSKI Anniversary Professor of Politics, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK AMY MAZUR Professor, Department of Political Science, Washington State University, USA DOROTHY E. MCBRIDE Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Florida Atlantic University, USA PETRA MEIER Lecturer, Politics Department, Antwerp University, Belgium JANTINE OLDERSMA Assistant Professor, Department of Public Administration, Leiden University, The Netherlands TANJA OLSSON BLANDY Department of Government, Uppsala University, Sweden CANDICE D. ORTBALS Assistant Professor, Pepperdine University, Malibu, California, USA DIANE SAINSBURY Professor Emeritus, Skholm University, Sweden BIRGIT SAUER Professor of Political Science, Departmentof Political Science, University of Vienna, Austria MARIAN SAWER Professor of Political Science, Australian National University, Australia

Table of Contents

Introduction; J.Kantola & J.Outshoorn Australia: The Fall of the Femocrat; M.Sawer What Happened to the Model Student? Austrian State Feminism since the 1990s; B.Sauer State Feminism and Women's Movements in Belgium: Complex Patterns in a Multi-Level System; K.Celis & P.Meier State Feminism Finnish Style: Strong Policies Clash with Implementation Problems; A.M.Holli & J.Kantola Women's Policy Agencies, Women's Movements and a Shifting Political Context: Toward a Gendered Republic in France?; A.Mazur Gender Governance in Post-Unification Germany: Between Institutionalization, Deregulation and Privatization; S.Lang Unfinished Business: Equality Policy and the Changing Context of State Feminism in Great Britain; J.Lovenduski Women's Policy Machinery in Italy between European Pressure and Domestic Constraints; M.Guadagnini & A.Donà Dutch Decay: The Dismantling of the Women's Policy Network in the Netherlands; J.Outshoorn & J.Oldersma The Evolution of Spanish State Feminism: A Fragmented Landscape; M.Bustelo & C.Ortbals Swedish State Feminism: Continuity and Change; C.Bergqvist , T.O.Blandy & D.Sainsbury Women's Policy Agencies and Climate Change in the US: The Era of Republican Dominance; D.E.McBride Assessing Changes in State Feminism over the Last Decade; J.Outshoorn & J.Kantola