The Politics of Feminist Knowledge Transfer

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxviii

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • María Bustelo, Lucy Ferguson, Maxime Forest

      Pages 1-22

3. Key Issues in Feminist Knowledge Transfer

   1. How to Wield Feminist Power

      • Elisabeth Prügl

      Pages 25-42

   2. Resistance in Gender Training and Mainstreaming Processes

      • Emanuela Lombardo, Lut Mergaert

      Pages 43-61

   3. Gender Expertise and the Private Sector

      • Lucy Ferguson, Daniella Moreno Alarcón

      Pages 62-79

   4. The Smothering of Feminist Knowledge: Gender Mainstreaming Articulated through Neoliberal Governmentalities

      • Tine Davids, Anouka van Eerdewijk

      Pages 80-96

4. Critical Case Studies of Feminist Knowledge Transfer

   1. Windows of Opportunity, Trojan Horses, and Waves of Women on the Move: De-colonizing the Circulation of Feminist Knowledges through Metaphors?

      • Rahel Kunz

      Pages 99-117

   2. Gender Training as a Tool for Transformative Gender Mainstreaming: Evidence from Sweden

      • Anne-Charlott Callerstig

      Pages 118-138

   3. Between Knowledge and Power: Triggering Structural Change for Gender Equality from Inside in Higher Education Institutions

      • Viviane Albenga

      Pages 139-156

5. Conclusions

   1. Conclusions

      • María Bustelo, Lucy Ferguson, Maxime Forest

      Pages 157-174

6. Back Matter

   Pages 175-180

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The Politics of Feminist Knowledge Transfer draws together analytical work on gender training and gender expertise. Its chapters critically reflect on the politics of feminist knowledge transfer, understood as an inherently political, dynamic and contested process, the overall aim of which is to transform gendered power relations in pursuit of more equal societies, workplaces, and policies. At its core, the work explores the relationship between gender expertise, gender training, and broader processes of feminist transformation arising from knowledge transfer activities. Examining these in a reflective way, the book brings a primarily practice-based debate into the academic arena. With contributions from authors of diverse backgrounds, including academics, practitioners and representatives of gender training institutions, the editors combine a focus on gender expertise and gender training, with more theory-focused chapters. 

• Gender
• gender expertise
• gender training
• knowledge transfer
• feminist knowledge transfer
• gender policies
• gender mainstreaming
• gender and development
• feminist political economy
• gendered power relations
• economy
• feminism
• gender
• government
• Institution
• political economy
• transformation
• women
• work

     

• Departamento de Ciencia Política de la Administracóon II, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain

  María Bustelo

• Unidad de Género, Instituto Complutense de Estudios Internacionales, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain

  Lucy Ferguson

• Sciences Po Paris, OFCE, CEVIPOF, France

  Maxime Forest

María Bustelo is Associate Professor of Political Science and Public Administration and director of the Master on Evaluation of Public Policies at Madrid's Complutense University, Spain. An expert in the evaluation of gender equality policies, she has published extensively on Spanish gender policies and on the practice and evaluation of gender mainstreaming.   
 
Dr Lucy Ferguson is a consultant for the UN Women Training Centre in Santo Domingo, the Dominican Republic. Her previous research on gender expertise has been published in the International Feminist Journal of Politics, and she was a member of the OPERA research team. As a practitioner, she works as a gender expert and trainer in her specialist field of tourism.   
 
Dr Maxime Forest is Senior Researcher and Lecturer at Sciences Po Paris, France. He is currently scientific supervisor of the EU-funded EGERA project (Effective Gender Equality in Research and the Academia). Among his latest publications is The Europeanization of Gender Equality Policies. A Discursive-Sociological Approach, edited with Emanuela Lombardo (Palgrave, 2012).  

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