Gender Mainstreaming - an Innovation in Europe? : the Institutionalisation of Gender Mainstreaming in the European Commission.

The concept of gender mainstreaming has experienced an unexpected boom in the European Union and beyond since the United Nations World Conference of Women in Beijing in 1995. Starting from the evolution of gender mainstreaming, this book examines the extent to which gender mainstreaming can be regar...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Schmidt, Verena
Otros Autores: Lenz, Ilse
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leverkusen-Opladen : Verlag Barbara Budrich, 2005.
Temas:
Gender mainstreaming.
Sex differences in education.
Analyse différenciée selon les sexes.
Différences entre sexes en éducation.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Gender Studies.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover; Gender Mainstreaming-an Innovation in Europe? The Institutionalisation of Gender Mainstreamingin the European Commission; Contents; Figures; Tables; Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; Preface by Ilse Lenz. A new Perspective on Gender Mainstreaming in the European Union; 1 Introduction and Methodological Approach; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Methodological Approach; 2 Definition and Evolution of Gender Mainstreaming; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Definition of Gender Mainstreaming; 2.3 Semantic Approach to the Term 'Gender Mainstreaming'
  • 2.4 Legal Framework for Equal Opportunities and Positive Action in the European Union2.4.1 The development of EU Women's Policies and the Significance of Article 119 in the Treaties of Rome; 2.5 The Definition of Gender Mainstreaming within the European Commission; 2.6 Operationalisation of Gender Mainstreaming in the European Commission from an organisational Approach; 2.6.1 Phases of Gender Mainstreaming; 2.7 Frame Alignment Processes with regard to Gender Mainstreaming; 2.8 Critiques of Gender Mainstreaming
  • 2.8.1 Fundamental Critique: Gender Mainstreaming is perceived to reify the Duality of Genders2.8.2 Normative Critique on the Concept of Gender Mainstreaming; 2.8.3 Framing of Gender Mainstreaming: Gender Mainstreaming is perceived to be the same as Equal Opportunities; 2.8.4 Critique on the Implementation of Gender Mainstreaming; 2.9 Conclusion; 3 Organisational Theories and Gender Mainstreaming; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Foundational Organisational Theories; 3.2.1 Weber's Analysis of Rationalisation and Bureaucracy
  • 3.2.2 Individual Decision-Making: The Development of the Concept of Bounded Rationality and the Garbage Can Model of Organisational Choice3.3 Neo-Institutionalism; 3.3.1 Institutionalism as the Foundation for Neo-Institutionalism; 3.3.2 Theoretical Strands within Neo-Institutionalism; 3.3.3 Different Theories within sociological Neo-Institutionalism; 3.4 Giddens' Concept of Structuration; 3.4.1 Giddens' Notion of Social Practice; 3.4.2 Giddens' Notion of an Agent, Agency and Action; 3.4.3 Giddens' Notion of Structure and Structuration; 3.4.4 Giddens' Notion of Institution
  • 3.4.5 Giddens' Notion of Organisations3.4.6 Empirical Foundation of Giddens' Theory of Structuration; 3.4.7 Critique of Structuration Theory; 3.5 Conclusion: Theoretical Framework for examining Gender Mainstreaming combining sociological Neo-Institutionalism and the Structuration Theory; 3.5.1 Sociological Neo-Institutionalism as an appropriate theoretical Approach for the Study of Gender Mainstreaming; 3.5.2 Structuration Theory as an appropriate theoretical Approachfor the Study of Gender Mainstreaming Wolffensperger's Concept of engendered Structure

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