Mainstreaming Politics

Mainstreaming politics

Gendering Practices and Feminist Theory

Edited by Carol Bacchi and Joan Eveline



FREE | 2010 | Electronic (PDF) | 978-0-9806723-8-1 | 368 pp

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    Preface
    Carol Bacchi and Joan Eveline
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    Personal reflection
    Carol Bacchi
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    Publisher's note
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    Introduction
    Carol Bacchi and Joan Eveline
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    1. Gender/ing impact assessment: Can it be made to work?
    Carol Bacchi
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    2. Mainstreaming and neoliberalism: A contested relationship
    Carol Bacchi and Joan Eveline
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    3. Gender analysis and social change: Testing the water
    Carol Bacchi, Joan Eveline, Jennifer Binns, Catherine MacKenzie and Susan Harwood
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    4. What are we mainstreaming when we mainstream gender?
    Joan Eveline and Carol Bacchi
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    5. Approaches to gender mainstreaming: What's the problem represented to be?
    Carol Bacchi and Joan Eveline
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    6. Power, resistance and reflexive practice
    Joan Eveline and Carol Bacchi
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    7. Gender mainstreaming: The answer to the gender pay gap?
    Joan Eveline and Patricia Todd
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    8. Gender analysis and community participation: The role of women's policy units
    Katy Osborne, Carol Bacchi and Catherine MacKenzie
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    9. The invisibility of gendered power relations in domestic violence policy
    Karen Vincent and Joan Eveline
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    10. Gender mainstreaming versus diversity mainstreaming: Methodology as emancipatory politics
    Joan Eveline, Carol Bacchi and Jennifer Binns
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    11. University-public sector research collaboration: Mine the space, never mind the gap
    Catherine MacKenzie and Carol Bacchi
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    12. Obeying organisational ‘rules of relevance’: Gender analysis of policy
    Joan Eveline and Carol Bacchi
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    13. Gender mainstreaming or diversity mainstreaming? The politics of ‘doing’
    Carol Bacchi and Joan Eveline
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    Conclusion: A politics of movement
    Carol Bacchi and Joan Eveline
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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 development in equality policy in many industrialised and some industrialising countries, as well as in large international organisations such as the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and the International Labour Organization.

The book draws upon poststructuralist organisation and policy theory to argue that it is impossible to ‘script’ reform initiatives such as gender mainstreaming. As an alternative it recommends thinking about such policy developments as fields of contestation, shaped by on-the-ground political deliberations and practices, including the discursive practices that produce specific ways of understanding the ‘problem’ of ‘gender inequality’.

In addition to the new chapters Bacchi and Eveline produce brief introductions for each chapter, tracing the development of their ideas over four years. Through these commentaries the book provides exciting insights into the complex processes of collaboration and theory generation.

Mainstreaming Politics is a rich resource for both practitioners in the field and for theorists. In particular it will appeal to those interested in public policy, public administration, organisation studies, sociology, comparative politics and international studies.