Changing State Feminism
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 politica
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Also by Joyce Outshoorn THE POLITICS OF PROSTITUTION: Women’s Movements, Democratic States and the Globalization of Sex Commerce (editor) Also by Johanna Kantola FEMINISTS THEORIZE THE STATE
Changing State Feminism Edited by
Joyce Outshoorn Professor of Women’s Studies University of Leiden, The Netherlands
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Johanna Kantola Senior Lecturer in Politics University of Helsinki, Finland
Editorial matter, selection, Chapter 1 and Chapter 14 © Joyce Outshoorn and Johanna Kantola 2007 All remaining chapters © respective authors 2007 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2007 978-0-230-51661-8
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Contents List of Tables
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Preface
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Notes on the Contributors
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List of Abbreviations
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Changing State Feminism Johanna Kantola and Joyce Outshoorn
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Australia: the Fall of the Femocrat Marian Sawer
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What Happened to the Model Student? Austrian State Feminism since the 1990s Birgit Sauer
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State Feminism and Women’s Movements in Belgium: Complex Patterns in a Multilevel System Karen Celis and Petra Meier
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State Feminism Finnish Style: Strong Policies clash with Implementation Problems Anne Maria Holli and Johanna Kantola
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Women’s Policy Agencies, Women’s Movements and a Shifting Political Context: Towards a Gendered Republic in Fran
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