Changing State Feminism

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxii

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2. Changing State Feminism

   • Johanna Kantola, Joyce Outshoorn

   Pages 1-19

3. Australia: the Fall of the Femocrat

   • Marian Sawer

   Pages 20-40

4. What Happened to the Model Student? Austrian State Feminism since the 1990s

   • Birgit Sauer

   Pages 41-61

5. State Feminism and Women’s Movements in Belgium: Complex Patterns in a Multilevel System

   • Karen Celis, Petra Meier

   Pages 62-81

6. State Feminism Finnish Style: Strong Policies clash with Implementation Problems

   • Anne Maria Holli, Johanna Kantola

   Pages 82-101

7. Women’s Policy Agencies, Women’s Movements and a Shifting Political Context: Towards a Gendered Republic in France?

   • Amy G. Mazur

   Pages 102-123

8. Gender Governance in Post-unification Germany: Between Institutionalization, Deregulation and Privatization

   • Sabine Lang

   Pages 124-143

9. Unfinished Business: Equality Policy and the Changing Context of State Feminism in Great Britain

   • Joni Lovenduski

   Pages 144-163

10. Women’s Policy Machinery in Italy between European Pressure and Domestic Constraints

    • Marila Guadagnini, Alessia Donà

    Pages 164-181

11. Dutch Decay: the Dismantling of the Women’s Policy Network in the Netherlands

    • Joyce Outshoorn, Jantine Oldersma

    Pages 182-200

12. The Evolution of Spanish State Feminism: a Fragmented Landscape

    • María Bustelo, Candice D. Ortbals

    Pages 201-223

13. Swedish State Feminism: Continuity and Change

    • Christina Bergqvist, Tanja Olsson Blandy, Diane Sainsbury

    Pages 224-245

14. Women’s Policy Agencies and Climate Change in the US: the Era of Republican Dominance

    • Dorothy E. Mcbride

    Pages 246-265

15. Assessing Changes in State Feminism over the Last Decade

    • Joyce Outshoorn, Johanna Kantola

    Pages 266-285

16. Back Matter

    Pages 286-329

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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 political context and how have women's movements adapted to change in twelve states.

• feminism
• gender
• governance
• Institution
• Policy
• women

• University of Leiden, The Netherlands

  Joyce Outshoorn

• University of Helsinki, Finland

  Johanna Kantola

CHRISTINA BERGQVIST Associate Professor of Political Science, Department of Government, Uppsala University, Sweden MARIA BUSTELO Associate Professor of Political Science and Public Administration, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain KAREN CELIS Department of Management Science, Hogeschool Gent, Belgium ALESSIA DONÀ Lecturer in Public Policy Analysis and Comparative Politics, University of Trento, Italy MARILA GUADAGNINI Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Turin, Italy ANNE MARIA HOLLI Research Fellow (Academy of Finland), Department of Political Science, University of Helsinki, Finland SABINE LANG Assistant Professor of European Studies, H.M. Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington, USA JONI LOVENDUSKI Anniversary Professor of Politics, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK AMY MAZUR Professor, Department of Political Science, Washington State University, USA DOROTHY E. MCBRIDE Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Florida Atlantic University, USA PETRA MEIER Lecturer, Politics Department, Antwerp University, Belgium JANTINE OLDERSMA Assistant Professor, Department of Public Administration, Leiden University, The Netherlands TANJA OLSSON BLANDY Department of Government, Uppsala University, Sweden CANDICE D. ORTBALS Assistant Professor, Pepperdine University, Malibu, California, USA DIANE SAINSBURY Professor Emeritus, Stockholm University, Sweden BIRGIT SAUER Professor of Political Science, Departmentof Political Science, University of Vienna, Austria MARIAN SAWER Professor of Political Science, Australian National University, Australia

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