Rhetoric and reality -- Sexual equality conceived -- Fashioning interventions -- Assessing material reforms -- Assessing political equality and mainstreaming -- Politicizing male violence -- The programs--Stop and Daphne -- Politicizing sexuality -- Wedding rights to marriage -- Self-negating policies and polities
Summary
This book examines the role of 'Europe' in defining, maintaining, constructing, and remedying sex discrimination. The author investigates the origins, institutions, and policies associated with recent European Union efforts to stem violence against women, sex trafficking, racism, and heterosexism