Why and How to Gender European Integration Theory? Introduction / Gabriele Abels and Heather MacRae -- Interrogating Classic Integration Theories -- Federalism : Feminist Contributions to an Old Idea / Petra Meier -- Neo-Functionalism : Spilling Over to Gender Studies / Heather MacRae -- Intergovernmentalism : Gendering a Dinosaur? / Anna van der Vleuten -- Working with Modern Approaches -- Multi-Level Governance : Tailoring a 'Favourite Coat' to the Needs of 'Gender Fashion' / Gabriele Abels -- Social Constructivism in European Integration Theories : Gender and Intersectionality Perspectives / Emanuela Lombardo -- Gendering Europeanisation : Making Equality Work in Theory and Practice / Ulrike Liebert -- Law as the Object and Agent of Integration : Gendering the Court of Justice of the European Union, its Decisions and their Impact / Jessica Guth -- Introducing New Concepts -- Gendering Institutionalism : a Feminist Institutionalist Approach to EU Integration Theory / Toni Haastrup and Meryl Kenny -- European Integration and the Politics of Scale : a Gender Perspective / Sabine Lang and Birgit Sauer -- Gendering Governmentality and European Integration Theory / Stefanie Wöhl -- Civil Society and European Integration : the Re-configuration of Gendered Power Relations in the Public Sphere -- Linking Gender Perspectives to Integration Theory : the Need for Dialogue / Hans-Jürgen Bieling and Thomas Diez
Summary
The authors engage a dialogue between European integration theories and gender studies. The contributions illustrate where and how gender scholarship has made creative use of integration theories and thus contributes to a vivid theoretical debate. The chapters are designed to make gender scholarship more visible to integration theory and, in this way stimulates the broader theoretical debates. Investigating the whole range of integration theory with a gender lens, the authors illustrate if and how gender scholarship has made or can make creative use of integration theories
