Integrating Gender: Women, Law and Politics in the European Union

Integrating Gender makes a timely contribution to debate about the social content and internal politics of the European Union. Based on a detailed study of the EU’s policy on women’s rights, it draws together approaches from international relations and feminist theory to develop a powerful critique.

Since the 1970s the European Community’s policy on women’s rights has provided a rare example of a European policy which grants social rights and engages at least to some extent with a mobilized ...