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9783847406402 English 384740640X Gabriele Abels is the Jean Monnet Chair and professor of political science at the University of T'bingen. Heather MacRae is associate professor of political science at York University., The authors aim at initiating a dialogue between European integration theory and gender studies. The contributions illustrate if and how gender scholarship has made creative use of integration theories and thus contributes to a vivid theoretical debate. They are designed to make gender scholarship more visible to integration theory and to stimulate the theoretical debate by adding a gender perspective. The process of European integration has always been accompanied by theory-building. A wide range of integration theories, from classical theories such as federalism, neofunctionalism, and intergovernmentalism to more recent approaches such as multi-level governance, critical theory, neoinstitutionalism, and Europeanization, as well as sociological, legal and social constructivist perspectives, continue to define the theoretical landscape. Despite their diversity, these theories share a basic neglect, i.e. the theoretical implications of the relationship between European integration and the restructuring of gender relations in European member states. At the same time, a rich body of gender studies on the EU and European integration has evolved; yet, this literature has generally neglected to engage with theorizing integration itself. The authors take these blind spots as a starting point and initiate a dialogue between European integration theories and gender studies. Investigating the whole range of integration theory with a gender lens, the authors illustrate if and how gender scholarship has made or can make creative use of integration theories., This book initiates a dialogue between European integration theory and gender studies. The contributions illustrate if and how gender scholarship has made creative use of integration theories and thus contributes to a vivid theoretical debate. They are designed to make gender scholarship more visible to integration theory and to stimulate the theoretical debate by adding a gender perspective. From the Contents: ** Classical Approaches [feminist readings of federalism: new approaches and tools to study the process of European integration; neo-functionalism: spilling over to gender studies; inter-governmentalism: gendering a dinosaur?] ** New Approaches [gendering Europeanization: some contradictions of state-society transformation in Europe and beyond; multi-level governance: gendering a key theoretical approach in EU studies; social constructivism in European integration theories: gender and intersectionality perspectives; neo-institutionalism from a gender perspective: towards feminist institutionalism in EU studies; European integration and the politics of scale: a gender perspective] ** Interdisciplinary Approaches [neo-institutionalism and world society; gendering governmentality and European integration theory; legal theories and European integration; gendering civil society perspectives on the EU] ** Conclusions [linking gender perspectives to integration theory: engaging new dialogues]. [Subject: Politics, European Studies, Gender Studies]
9783847406402 English 384740640X Gabriele Abels is the Jean Monnet Chair and professor of political science at the University of T'bingen. Heather MacRae is associate professor of political science at York University., The authors aim at initiating a dialogue between European integration theory and gender studies. The contributions illustrate if and how gender scholarship has made creative use of integration theories and thus contributes to a vivid theoretical debate. They are designed to make gender scholarship more visible to integration theory and to stimulate the theoretical debate by adding a gender perspective. The process of European integration has always been accompanied by theory-building. A wide range of integration theories, from classical theories such as federalism, neofunctionalism, and intergovernmentalism to more recent approaches such as multi-level governance, critical theory, neoinstitutionalism, and Europeanization, as well as sociological, legal and social constructivist perspectives, continue to define the theoretical landscape. Despite their diversity, these theories share a basic neglect, i.e. the theoretical implications of the relationship between European integration and the restructuring of gender relations in European member states. At the same time, a rich body of gender studies on the EU and European integration has evolved; yet, this literature has generally neglected to engage with theorizing integration itself. The authors take these blind spots as a starting point and initiate a dialogue between European integration theories and gender studies. Investigating the whole range of integration theory with a gender lens, the authors illustrate if and how gender scholarship has made or can make creative use of integration theories., This book initiates a dialogue between European integration theory and gender studies. The contributions illustrate if and how gender scholarship has made creative use of integration theories and thus contributes to a vivid theoretical debate. They are designed to make gender scholarship more visible to integration theory and to stimulate the theoretical debate by adding a gender perspective. From the Contents: ** Classical Approaches [feminist readings of federalism: new approaches and tools to study the process of European integration; neo-functionalism: spilling over to gender studies; inter-governmentalism: gendering a dinosaur?] ** New Approaches [gendering Europeanization: some contradictions of state-society transformation in Europe and beyond; multi-level governance: gendering a key theoretical approach in EU studies; social constructivism in European integration theories: gender and intersectionality perspectives; neo-institutionalism from a gender perspective: towards feminist institutionalism in EU studies; European integration and the politics of scale: a gender perspective] ** Interdisciplinary Approaches [neo-institutionalism and world society; gendering governmentality and European integration theory; legal theories and European integration; gendering civil society perspectives on the EU] ** Conclusions [linking gender perspectives to integration theory: engaging new dialogues]. [Subject: Politics, European Studies, Gender Studies]