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Author Bacchi, Carol Lee.

Title Mainstreaming politics : gendering practices and feminist theory / by Carol Bacchi and Joan Eveline.

Publication Info. Adelaide, S. Aust. : University of Adelaide Press, 2010.

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 368 pages) : photograph
text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents Gender/ing impact assessment : can it be made to work? / Carol Bacchi -- Mainstreaming and neoliberalism : a contested relationship / Carol Bacchi and Joan Eveline -- Gender analysis and social change : testing the water / Carol Bacchi [and others] -- What are we mainstreaming when we mainstream gender? / Joan Eveline and Carol Bacchi -- Approaches to gender mainstreaming : what's the problem represented to be? / Carol Bacchi and Joan Eveline -- Power, resistance and reflexive practice / Joan Eveline and Carol Bacchi -- Gender mainstreaming : the answer to the gender pay gap? / Joan Eveline and Patricia Todd -- Gender analysis and community participation : the role of women's policy units / Katy Osborne, Carol Bacchi and Catherine Mackenzie -- Invisibility of gendered power relations in domestic violence policy / Karen Vincent and Joan Eveline -- Gender mainstreaming versus diversity mainstreaming : methodology as emancipatory politics / Joan Eveline, Carol Bacchi and Jennifer Binns -- University-public sector research collaboration : mine the space, never mind the gap / Catherine Mackenzie and Carol Bacchi -- Obeying organisational 'rules of relevance' : gender analysis of policy / Joan Eveline and Carol Bacchi -- Gender mainstreaming or diversity mainstreaming? : the politics of 'doing' / Carol Bacchi and Joan Eveline -- Conclusion : a politics of movement / Carol Bacchi and Joan Eveline.
Summary 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.
Local Note JSTOR Books at JSTOR Open Access
Language English.
Subject Political participation.
Political participation.
Political candidates -- Selection and appointment.
Political candidates.
Organizational change.
Organizational change.
Male domination (Social structure)
Male domination (Social structure)
Sexism.
Sexism.
Feminist theory -- Political aspects.
Feminist theory -- Political aspects.
Sex discrimination against women.
Sex discrimination against women.
Affirmative action programs.
Affirmative action programs.
Power (Social sciences)
Power (Social sciences)
Women -- Employment.
Women -- Employment.
Women -- Government policy.
Women -- Government policy.
Women.
Women -- Social conditions.
Women -- Social conditions.
Indexed Term Gender mainstreaming
Organizational sociology
Sex discrimination against women
Women's rights
Women and social conditions
Feminist theory
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Subject Sexism.
Feminist theory.
Women.
Womyn.
Added Author Eveline, Joan.
Other Form: Print version: Bacchi, Carol Lee. Mainstreaming politics. Adelaide, S. Aust. : University of Adelaide Press, 2010 9780980672398 (OCoLC)638783212
ISBN 9780980672381 (electronic book)
0980672384 (electronic book)
9780980672398
0980672392
Standard No. 10.1017/UPO9780980672381