An exploration of European integration as seen through a gender lens. This book looks at integration theories, institutional relationships, enlargement, the development of gender law and the role of formal actors, scholars and expert networks in the EU policy-making process. With a focus on gender mainstreaming as a new approach to gender policy.

GABRIELE ABELS Professor of Comparative Politics and European Integration at the Department of Political Science at the University of Tubingen, Germany SARA CLAVERO Senior Research Fellow at the School of Politics, International Studies and Philosophy at Queen's University Belfast, UK YVONNE GALLIGAN Professor of Comparative Politics at Queen's University Belfast, UK AGNES HUBERT Official of the European Commission. ANNICA KRONSELL Associate Professor of Political Science at Lund University, Sweden BIRGIT LOCHER Professor of International Relations and Gender Studies at the Institute of Political Science at the University of Tubingen, Germany JOYCE MARIE MUSHABEN Professor of Comparative Politics and Gender Studies at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, USA ELISABETH PRUGL Professor of Political Science at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, Switzerland MARIA STRATIGAKI Assistant Professor and Director of the Centre for Gender Studies at the Department of Social Policy, Panteion University, Greece ANNA VAN DER VLEUTEN Associate Professor of European Integration at the Institute for Management Research, Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands ALISON E. WOODWARD Research Professor at the Institute of European Studies and co-director of the Center for Gender Studies and Diversity Research at the Free University of Brussels (VUB, Belgium)

About the Author
GABRIELE ABELS Professor of Comparative Politics and European Integration at the Department of Political Science at the University of Tubingen, Germany SARA CLAVERO Senior Research Fellow at the School of Politics, International Studies and Philosophy at Queen's University Belfast, UK YVONNE GALLIGAN Professor of Comparative Politics at Queen's University Belfast, UK AGNES HUBERT Official of the European Commission. ANNICA KRONSELL Associate Professor of Political Science at Lund University, Sweden BIRGIT LOCHER Professor of International Relations and Gender Studies at the Institute of Political Science at the University of Tubingen, Germany JOYCE MARIE MUSHABEN Professor of Comparative Politics and Gender Studies at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, USA ELISABETH PRUEGL Professor of Political Science at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, Switzerland MARIA STRATIGAKI Assistant Professor and Director of the Centre for Gender Studies at the Department of Social Policy, Panteion University, Greece ANNA VAN DER VLEUTEN Associate Professor of European Integration at the Institute for Management Research, Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands ALISON E. WOODWARD Research Professor at the Institute of European Studies and co-director of the Center for Gender Studies and Diversity Research at the Free University of Brussels (VUB, Belgium)

Reviews

Juli Simon Thomas of University of California- Los Angeles, USA provides an insightful review of 'Gendering the European Union' for the Reviews and Critical Commentary section of The Council for European Studies. Read the full review at the link below:

http://councilforeuropeanstudies.org/critcom/gendering-the-european-union/

Book Information
ISBN 9780230296459
Author G. Abels
Format Hardback
Page Count 279
Imprint Palgrave Macmillan
Publisher Palgrave Macmillan