Most Western democracies established women's policy agencies to improve the status of women by the 1990s. One of the book's key questions is how have women's policy agencies been able to develop, maintain or enhance their roles in the transformed political context and how have women's movements adapted to change in twelve states.

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Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan

Year

2007

ISBN

9780230591424

Topic

Politics & International Relations

Subtopic

Politics

Index

Politics & International Relations

Cover
Contents
List of Tables
Preface
Notes on the Contributors
List of Abbreviations
1 Changing State Feminism
2 Australia: the Fall of the Femocrat
3 What Happened to the Model Student? Austrian State Feminism since the 1990s
4 State Feminism and Women’s Movements in Belgium: Complex Patterns in a Multilevel System
5 State Feminism Finnish Style: Strong Policies clash with Implementation Problems
6 Women’s Policy Agencies, Women’s Movements and a Shifting Political Context: Towards a Gendered Republic in France?
7 Gender Governance in Post-unification Germany: Between Institutionalization, Deregulation and Privatization
8 Unfinished Business: Equality Policy and the Changing Context of State Feminism in Great Britain
9 Women’s Policy Machinery in Italy between European Pressure and Domestic Constraints
10 Dutch Decay: the Dismantling of the Women’s Policy Network in the Netherlands
11 The Evolution of Spanish State Feminism: a Fragmented Landscape
12 Swedish State Feminism: Continuity and Change
13 Women’s Policy Agencies and Climate Change in the US: the Era of Republican Dominance
14 Assessing Changes in State Feminism over the Last Decade
Bibliography
Index