Mainstreaming Politics : Gendering Practices and Feminist Theory

• Main Authors: Bacchi, Carol, Eveline, Joan
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: University of Adelaide Press 2010
• Subjects: Book Industry Communication; Feminism & Feminist Theory; feminist theory; gender mainstreaming; Gender Studies; Gender studies, gender groups; JBSF1 Gender studies: women and girls; JBSF11 Feminism and feminist theory; organizational sociology; Political science & theory; Political science and theory; Politics & government; Politics and government; Public sector; sex discrimination against women; Social groups, communities and identities; Social issues & processes; Social Science; Social Sciences; Society & culture: general; Society & social sciences; Society and culture: general; Society and Social Sciences; Sociology; thema EDItEUR; women and social conditions; women's rights

This book offers an innovative rethinking of policy approaches to ‘gender equality’ and of the process of social change. It brings several new chapters together with a series of previously published articles to reflect on these topics. A particular focus is gender mainstreaming, a relatively recent...

Table of Contents:

• Front Matter Table of Contents Preface Personal reflection Publisher’s note List of authors and project personnel Acknowledgements Introduction 1: Gender/ing impact assessment: 2: Mainstreaming and neoliberalism: 3: Gender analysis and social change: 4: What are we mainstreaming when we mainstream gender? 5: Approaches to gender mainstreaming: 6: Power, resistance and reflexive practice 7: Gender mainstreaming: 8: Gender analysis and community participation: 9: The invisibility of gendered power relations in domestic violence policy 10: Gender mainstreaming versus diversity mainstreaming: 11: University-public sector research collaboration: 12: Obeying organisational ‘rules of relevance’: 13: Gender mainstreaming or diversity mainstreaming? Conclusion Author index General index