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Gender Policies in the European Union

Foreword by Louise A. Tilly

by Mariagrazia Rossilli (Volume editor)
©2000 Textbook XI, 261 Pages
Series: Studies in European Union, Volume 1

Summary

An interdisciplinary group of European feminist scholars critically explores the European gender policies from the founding of the European Community to the 1997 Treaty of Amsterdam. They offer different interpretations of the contradiction between the exceptional development of gender equality policy within Community social policy and actual gender inequality. Analysis of the EU policies on the equality of women reveals their central role in the making of the common market and the Community’s modernizing action to reform employment patterns and welfare systems. From different, and at times contrasting, feminist perspectives, the contributors propose new policies to challenge the current situation and overcome the EU juridical defect in women’s rights, which exacerbates the European «citizenship deficit» and «democratic deficit».

Details

Pages
XI, 261
Publication Year
2000
ISBN (Softcover)
9780820445083
Language
English
Keywords
contradiction equality employment welfare
Published
New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt/M., Oxford, Wien, 2000. XI, 261 pp.

Biographical notes

Mariagrazia Rossilli (Volume editor)

The Author: Mariagrazia Rossilli is a sociologist and freelance researcher. Her work on international and European Community policies on women has appeared in several journals.

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