Institutionalizing Intersectionality: The Changing Nature of European Equality Regimes (Gender and Politics)

ISBN 10: 023029295X / ISBN 13: 9780230292956

Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012

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• Titel: Institutionalizing Intersectionality: The Changing Nature of European Equality Regimes (Gender and Politics)
• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 023029295X
• ISBN-13: 9780230292956
• Einband: Hardcover
• Zustand: New

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This volume centers on the lives and experiences of female and African American leaders of foundations and nonprofits. Contributors to the volume examine race and gender as constructs and provide a theoretical background for understanding their effect on the psychosocial development of the individuals. They explore their family backgrounds and childhood experiences as well as the impact of education on their lives and future leadership.

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ANDREA KRIZSAN Research Fellow at the Center for Policy Studies of the Central European University, Budapest, Hungary. She has worked on several comparative research projects dealing with gender and other equality policies, most recently the project 'Quality of Gender+ Equality Policies in Europe' (QUING). Her main research interests include understanding policy change and the role of non-conventional policy actors in bringing about change in Central and Eastern Europe. Her most recent project concerns reforms of domestic violence policies in five Central and Eastern European countries. Her publications include articles in Social Politics, Ethnic and Racial Studies, European Integration Online Papers, Policy Studies, Journal for Ethnic and Minority Studies, chapters in several edited volumes, and an edited volume on ethnic monitoring and data collection.
HEGE SKJEIE Professor of Political Science at the Department of Political Science, University of Oslo, Norway.
JUDITH SQUIRES Professor of Political Theory and Dean of the Faculty Social Sciences and Law, University of Bristol, UK. Her publications include: Contesting Citizenship, co-edited with Birte Siim (2008), The New Politics of Gender Equality (2007) and Gender in Political Theory (1999). She co-edits the Palgrave Gender and Politics Book Series (with Johanna Kantola) and is Reviews Editor for the journal Government andOpposition. She is a member of the European Consortium of Political Research Press board and was appointed an Academician of the Academy of Social Sciences in 2009.