Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Gendering the European Parliament: Structures, Policies, and Practices

Gendering the European Parliament: Structures, Policies and Practices provides a multifaceted innovative analysis of the EP by studying it comprehensively from a gender perspective addressing changes and continuities. It asks how and why the EP, as an institution, is gendered and what the gendered impacts of recent changes are when it comes to the structures, policies and practices of the EP. This collection brings together scholars from a variety of different disciplines (sociology, political sciences, law, management studies and cultural studies) as well as theoretical and methodological backgrounds who are united by their ability to provide the puzzle pieces necessary to fully comprehend the EP from a gender perspective. Review This is a timely collection that not only demonstrates the agency of the European parliament in shaping European norms and practices, but also provides an important feminist dimension to the study of a key institution of European integration This book is a 'must read' for those interested in parliamentary agency, EU integration and gender equality promotion and institutionalisation within the European institutions.--Toni Haastrup, Senior Lecturer in International Politics, University of Stirling, UK This timely and important book allows scholars to understand the genderedness of the European Parliament (EP) at a crucial moment for democracy, when the EP has strengthened its powers simultaneously with the growth of populist, right-leaning parties. The brilliant analysis of actors' dynamics, institutionalization, and discursive contestation presents the European Parliament as a multifaceted arena of democratic power struggles in which feminist empowerment co-exists with opposition to gender equality.--Emanuela Lombardo, Senior Lecturer in Political Science, Madrid Complutense University, Spain This important collection addresses key issues about both new and continuing actions of the European Parliament, covering policy areas for which the EU has responsibilities and commitments to democracy and diversity as well as gender equality. The book presents cutting-edge research, drawing on the analysis of an up-and-coming young cohort of experts as well as established scholars. A must read.--Jane Jenson, Full Professor, Department of Political Science, Université de Montréal, Canada About the Author Petra Ahrens is Senior Researcher at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Tampere University, Finland. Her research focuses on gender politics in the European Union, and social politics in Germany. She also provides expertise as a policy consultant on gender equality policy for German public administration. She is the author of Actors, Institutions, and the Making of EU Gender Equality Programmes. (Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming October 2017). She has published book chapters as well as articles and she is co-editor of the German journal "Femina Politica". Lise Rolandsen Agustín is Associate Professor at the Department of Politics and Society at Aalborg University, Denmark. Her research focuses on social movements, intersectionality and gender-based violence. She is a member of FREIA (Feminist Research Center in Aalborg) and EDGE (Center for Equality, Diversity and Gender) and participates in bEUcitizen: All Rights Reserved? Constraints and Contradictions of European Citizenship, EC FP7 (2013-2017) and in Gender Regimes in Politics (GRIP), Velux (2014-2017). She is the author of Gender Equality, Intersectionality and Diversity in Europe (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013) and she has published chapters in various books as well as articles in journals such as Politics, European Journal of Women's Studies, and Social Politics.