Gender (In)equality and Gender Politics in Southeastern Europe

Gender (In)equality and Gender Politics in Southeastern Europe
Author: C. Hassentab
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 389
Release: 2015-04-14
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1137449926

The collapse of socialist regimes across Southeastern Europe changed the rules of the political game and led to the transformation of these societies. The status of women was immediately affected. The contributors to this volume contrast the status of women in the post-socialist societies of the region with their status under socialism.

Gender Equality and Public Policy

Gender Equality and Public Policy
Author: Paola Profeta
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 231
Release: 2020-04-16
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1108423353

This book offers a comprehensive and in-depth overview of how public policy is shaping gender equality in Europe.

Gender Inequality and Welfare States in Europe

Gender Inequality and Welfare States in Europe
Author: Mary Daly
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 278
Release: 2020-02-28
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1788111265

Gender equality has been one of the defining projects of European welfarestates. It has proven an elusive goal, not just because of political opposition but also due to a lack of clarity in how to best frame equality and take account of family-related considerations. This wide-ranging book assembles the most pertinent literature and evidence to provide a critical understanding of how contemporary state policies engage with gender inequalities.

Gender Equality Norms in Regional Governance

Gender Equality Norms in Regional Governance
Author: Anna van der Vleuten
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 314
Release: 2014-06-04
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1137301457

This book analyses the diffusion of norms concerning gender-based violence and gender mainstreaming of aid and trade between the EU, South America and Southern Africa. Norm diffusion is conceptualized as a truly multidirectional and polycentric process, shaped by regional governance and resulting in new geometries of transnational activism.

Welfare States and Gender Inequality in Central and Eastern Europe

Welfare States and Gender Inequality in Central and Eastern Europe
Author: Christina Klenner
Publisher:
Total Pages: 386
Release: 2010
Genre: Europe, Central
ISBN: 9782874521829

This book focuses on developments in the welfare states of the ten Central and Eastern European EU member states in the transformation process some 20 years after the end of state socialism. It also explores the shifts in gender relationships and inequalities, and tries to depict the interdependencies between these two processes. The contributors to this volume tackle the following main questions: how far are welfare states and gender regimes in these countries comparable with the types found in Western and Southern Europe? To what extend were traditional institutions and practices preserved under the new circumstances resulting from the system change? How have gender relations been affected by EU accession and welfare state change through the transformation process?

Gender Diversity in European Sport Governance

Gender Diversity in European Sport Governance
Author: Agnes Elling
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 237
Release: 2018-08-06
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1351629522

Gender equality is one of the founding democratic principles of the EU. However, recent studies of the Federation of Olympic Sports in Europe have shown that women occupy only fourteen percent of decision-making positions in sport organizations. This book presents a comprehensive and comparative study of how various regions and countries of Europe have addressed this lack of gender diversity, discussing which strategies have brought about change and to what extent these changes have been successful. With contributions from leading sport sociologists, covering countries such as Germany, Hungary, Norway, Poland, Spain, Turkey and the UK, it provides a foundation for future policymaking, methodological analyses and theoretical developments that can result in sustainable gender equality in European sport governance. Gender Diversity in European Sport Governance is important reading for scholars and students in the fields of sociology of sport, sport management, sociology, gender studies and studies of organization, management and leadership. It is also a valuable resource for policy makers in the EU, as well as national sport organizations and activists.

Women in the Balkans, Southeastern Europe

Women in the Balkans, Southeastern Europe
Author: Gabriella Schubert
Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
Total Pages: 152
Release: 2016
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN:

This book is a collection of contributions to a symposium which was organized by the Southeast Europe Association on the topic "Women in the Balkans/Southeastern Europe" and held on 3rd and 4th November 2014 in Munich. It reflects on the situation of the women which has changed fundamentally since the end of the communist/socialist regime.

A Biographical Dictionary of Women's Movements and Feminisms

A Biographical Dictionary of Women's Movements and Feminisms
Author: Francisca de Haan
Publisher: Central European University Press
Total Pages: 698
Release: 2006-01-10
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 6155053723

This Biographical Dictionary describes the lives, works and aspirations of more than 150 women and men who were active in, or part of, women’s movements and feminisms in Central, Eastern and South Eastern Europe. Thus, it challenges the widely held belief that there was no historical feminism in this part of Europe. These innovative and often moving biographical portraits not only show that feminists existed here, but also that they were widespread and diverse, and included Romanian princesses, Serbian philosophers and peasants, Latvian and Slovakian novelists, Albanian teachers, Hungarian Christian social workers and activists of the Catholic women’s movement, Austrian factory workers, Bulgarian feminist scientists and socialist feminists, Russian radicals, philanthropists, militant suffragists and Bolshevik activists, prominent writers and philosophers of the Ottoman era, as well as Turkish republican leftist political activists and nationalists, internationally recognized Greek feminist leaders, Estonian pharmacologists and science historians, Slovenian ‘literary feminists,’ Czech avant-garde painters, Ukrainian feminist scholars, Polish and Czech Senate Members, and many more. Their stories together constitute a rich tapestry of feminist activity and redress a serious imbalance in the historiography of women’s movements and feminisms.

Aspasia

Aspasia
Author: Krassimira Daskalova
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2008-09
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9781845456344

Aspasia is an international peer-reviewed yearbook that brings out the best scholarship in the field of interdisciplinary women's and gender historyfocused on - and produced in - Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe. In this region the field of women's and gender history has developed uevenly and has remained only marginally represented in the "international" canon.

Varieties of Opposition to Gender Equality in Europe

Varieties of Opposition to Gender Equality in Europe
Author: Mieke Verloo
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 380
Release: 2018-03-09
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1317232917

In contrast to the wealth of studies on progress towards gender equality, opposition to gender equality is rarely studied, which makes it difficult to understand the positive and negative dynamics of gender equality as a political project. The first of its kind, this timely collection examines the potential and challenges of our current scholarship on understanding opposition to gender+ equality in Europe. Divided into three parts, Mieke Verloo and her team of international experts begin Varieties of Opposition to Gender Equality in Europe by theorizing the dynamics of opposition to gender equality policies in Europe. Part Two highlights oppositional actors (politicians, governments, citizens, policy makers, churches) and political arenas (parliament, courts, Internet), as well as different and opposing visions of gender+ equality. Part Three concludes with a framework for understanding oppositional dynamics on gender equality change. Setting the agenda for future research, this book will be useful for students of gender and politics, social movements, European integration, and policy studies, as well as for high-level policymakers, students, and feminist activists alike. It will be an inspiration to thinkers and doers and to scholars and political actors.