Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Tables; Contributors; Series editor's preface; Foreword; Acknowledgements; 1 Stretching and bending gender equality: A discursive politics approach; 2 The issue of intentionality in frame theory: The need for reflexive framing; 3 Beyond the politics of location: The power of argument in gender equality politics; 4 Stretching and bending the meanings of gender in equality policies; 5 Stretching gender equality to other inequalities: Political intersectionality in European gender equality policies
Summary
Adopting a critical perspective, this book explores how the concept of gender equality is 'stretched and bent' in different ways according to the intervention of policy actors and assesses the consequences of the processes the policy-framing
