Institutionalizing Gender Equality

Yulia Gradskova is associate professor at the Institute of Contemporary History, Södertörn University.Sara Sanders is senior lecturer in the Departments of History and Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies at Grinnell College.

• Chapter 1: Internationalization, Institutionalization, and Glocalization: Gender Equality as Process, Yulia Gradskova and Sara SandersPart I: Cold War Gender Equality Politics in a Global Framework Chapter 2: Global Ideas in Local Media: Negotiating the Ideas of Gender Equality in a Finnish Women’s Magazine—The Case of Anna, 1965-1970, Heidi KurvinenChapter 3: Article 119: A Practical Tool for Stewardesses to Obtain Equal Pay in the European Community (Belgium, 1968-1980), Vanessa D‘HoogheChapter 4: The National Union of Mexican Women and Maternalist Alternatives in Global Women’s Politics, Sara SandersPart II: The Multiple Contexts of Gender EqualityChapter 5: Gender Equality Politics in Ageing Welfare Societies: the Case of the European Union, Heike KahlertChapter 6: Women’s Resource Centres: A Democratic Innovation for Gendered Equal Growth?, Malin LindbergChapter 7. Gender Equality Incorporated?: Coca-Cola’s and Wal-Mart’s Initiatives for Female Empowerment in Mexico, Sofie Tornhill Part III: Transfer and Legitimacy in the Institutionalization of Gender EqualityChapter 8: Voicing Roma Women: Intersectional Marginalities and Social Entrepreneurship of a Roma Women’s NGO in Hungary, Ildikó Asztalos MorellChapter 9: (Non)Engendering Human Rights Protection Institutions in Regions of Russia, Tatiana BarandovaChapter 10: Global Strategies and Local Implementations: Gender Quotas in South Korea and Taiwan, Chang-Ling HuangChapter 11: Gender Equality in Kazakhstan and the Role of International Actors in itsInstitutionalization, Svetlana ShakirovaPart IV: Gender Equality at Risk?Chapter 12: “This Law is Simply a Blind Copy of the Most Radical Feminist Laws of the Northern Europe”: Gender Equality (Non)Institutionalization—An Example of Nordic Cooperation with Northwest Russia, Yulia Gradskova Chapter 13: Challenging Global Gender Politics: Egypt’s Islamist Experience, An Van Raemdonck

This is a timely and fascinating book. The thirteen chapters, generally very well written and documented, critically examine historical and contemporary dimensions of ‘gender equality’ and its institutionalization from the 1960s through the 2010s. Institutionalizing Gender Equality enhances our understanding of global gender equality politics in the contexts of the Cold War, neoliberalism, nationalism, and religious fundamentalism. Highly recommended.