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Sexual Equality in an Integrated Europe

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  • © 2007

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  1. R. Amy Elman
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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xx
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  2. Rhetoric and Reality

    • R. Amy Elman
    Pages 1-18

  3. Sexual Equality Conceived

    • R. Amy Elman
    Pages 19-30

  4. Fashioning Interventions

    • R. Amy Elman
    Pages 31-52

  5. Assessing Material Reforms

    • R. Amy Elman
    Pages 53-67

  6. Assessing Political Equality and Mainstreaming

    • R. Amy Elman
    Pages 69-83

  7. Politicizing Male Violence

    • R. Amy Elman
    Pages 85-98

  8. The Programs—Stop and Daphne

    • R. Amy Elman
    Pages 99-116

  9. Politicizing Sexuality

    • R. Amy Elman
    Pages 117-137

  10. Wedding Rights to Marriage

    • R. Amy Elman
    Pages 139-149

  11. Self-Negating Policies and Polities

    • R. Amy Elman
    Pages 151-159

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 161-206
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This book examines the role of 'Europe' in defining, maintaining, constructing, and remedying sex discrimination. The author investigates the origins, institutions, and policies associated with recent European Union efforts to stem violence against women, sex trafficking, racism, and heterosexism.

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"What is special about this account of European integration and gender is that is gives equal weight to what used to be called body politics as to the better known areas of employment rights and reconciliation of work and family. This means that it examines in detail the impact of European level policy and attitudes in areas such as violence against women, trafficking, gay rights, and the institutional treatment of marriage and personal relationships. This begins to give a more rounded picture."

- Catherine Hoskyns, Professor Emerita in European Studies, Coventry University, United Kingdom

"Elman offers a much-needed critical appraisal of the EU s gender equality initiatives. With a sharp eye for the gap between rhetoric and reality, she exposes how the language and politics of integration increase expectations for equality but actually allow both the Member States and the transnational polity to avoid responsibility for implementation. By putting the intersections of gender, race, class, and sexuality in the center of her analysis, Elman reveals how women of color, lesbians, and immigrants fall through the cracks of gender policy-making in Europe, a failure that has implications for all women who place their hopes for equality in the modernization of gender regimes that the EU exemplifies."

- Myra Max Ferree, Martindale Bascom Professor of Sociology and Director, Center for German and European Studies, University of Wisconsin

About the author

R. AMY ELMAN writes on politics and social inequality in contemporary Europe.  She is editor of Sexual Politics and the European Union (1996) and author of Sexual Subordination and State Intervention: Comparing Sweden and the United States (1996).  She is also a Professor of Political Science at Kalamazoo College, Michigan.

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