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HANDBOOK OF FEMINIST GOVERNANCE INTERNATIONAL HANDBOOKS ON GENDER Founding Editor: the late Sylvia Chant FRSA, FAcSS, formerly Professor of Development Geography, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK International Handbooks on Gender is an exciting Handbook series under the general editor- ship and direction of Sylvia Chant. The series comprises high quality, original reference works offering comprehensive overviews of the latest research within key areas of contemporary gender studies. International and comparative in scope, the Handbooks are edited by leading scholars in their respective fields, and comprise specially commissioned contributions from a select cast of authors, bringing together established experts with up-and-coming scholars and researchers. Each volume offers a wide-ranging examination of current issues to produce prestigious and high quality works of lasting significance. Individual volumes will serve as invaluable sources of reference for students and faculty in gender studies and associated fields, as well as for other actors such as NGOs and policy- makers keen to engage with academic discussion on gender. Whether used as an information resource on key topics, a companion text or as a platform for further study, Elgar International Handbooks on Gender will provide a source of definitive scholarly reference. Titles in the series include: Handbook on Gender and Health Edited by Jasmine Gideon Handbook on Gender in World Politics Edited by Jill Steans and Daniela Tepe-Belfrage Handbook on Gender and War Edited by Simona Sharoni, Julia Welland, Linda Steiner and Jennifer Pedersen Handbook on Gender and Social Policy Edited by Sheila Shaver Handbook on Gender and Violence Edited by Laura J. Shepherd Handbook on Gender, Diversity and Federalism Edited by Jill Vickers, Joan Grace and Cheryl N. Collier Handbook on Gender in Asia Edited by Shirlena Huang and Kanchana N. Ruwanpura Handbook of Feminist Governance Edited by Marian Sawer, Lee Ann Banaszak, Jacqui True and Johanna Kantola Handbook of Feminist Governance Edited by Marian Sawer Emeritus Professor, School of Politics and International Relations, The Australian National University, Australia Lee Ann Banaszak Professor, Department of Political Science, The Pennsylvania State University, USA Jacqui True Professor of International Relations, School of Social Sciences, Monash University, Australia Johanna Kantola Professor of European Politics, University of Helsinki, Finland INTERNATIONAL HANDBOOKS ON GENDER Cheltenham, UK • Northampton, MA, USA © Marian Sawer, Lee Ann Banaszak, Jacqui True and Johanna Kantola 2023 Cover image: Geordanna Cordero on Unsplash All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical or photocopying, recording, or otherwise without the prior permission of the publisher. Published by Edward Elgar Publishing Limited The Lypiatts 15 Lansdown Road Cheltenham Glos GL50 2JA UK Edward Elgar Publishing, Inc. William Pratt House 9 Dewey Court Northampton Massachusetts 01060 USA A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Control Number: 2022948487 This book is available electronically in the Political Science and Public Policy subject collection http://dx.doi.org/10.4337/9781800374812 ISBN 978 1 80037 480 5 (cased) ISBN 978 1 80037 481 2 (eBook) EEP BoX Contents List of contributors viii 1 Introduction to the Handbook of Feminist Governance 1 Marian Sawer, Lee Ann Banaszak, Jacqui True and Johanna Kantola Timeline of feminist governance 14 Renee O’Shanassy PART I THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES 2 Feminist organisational principles 25 Kaitlin Kelly-Thompson, Fernando Tormos-Aponte and S. Laurel Weldon 3 Understanding feminist governance through feminist institutionalism: an overview 38 Lisa Guido, Lindsay Walsh and Lee Ann Banaszak 4 Feminist governance and the state 51 Johanna Kantola 5 Do feminist insiders matter? Progress in conceptualization and comparative theory-building 63 Amy G. Mazur and Dorothy E. McBride 6 Feminist perspectives on multilevel governance 76 Meryl Kenny and Tània Verge 7 Seeking intersectionality in feminist governance 88 Erica Townsend-Bell 8 Studying feminist governance: methods and approaches to the field 100 Shan-Jan Sarah Liu PART II EVOLVING INSTITUTIONS 9 Weaving a feminist power tapestry: feminist governance in practice 113 Caroline Lambert, Jessica Horn, Srilatha Batliwala, Michelle Deshong, Tanja Kovac and Naomi Woyengu 10 National women’s machineries: Trojan horses or hostages? 126 Anne Marie Goetz 11 Gender-responsive budgeting 138 Monica Costa and Rhonda Sharp v vi Handbook of feminist governance 12 Specialised parliamentary bodies 150 Marian Sawer 13 Promoting gender equality in elected office 161 Mona Lena Krook and Pippa Norris 14 Gender-sensitive parliaments: feminising formal political institutions 174 Sarah Childs and Sonia Palmieri 15 Tools of the trade: feminist governance in the field 189 Sonia Palmieri and Julie Ballington PART III INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AND GLOBAL GOVERNANCE 16 The rise of feminist governance in foreign policy 203 Karin Aggestam and Jacqui True 17 Feminist governance in global health 216 Sara E. Davies and Clare Wenham 18 Feminist peacebuilding governance 227 Maria Martin de Almagro 19 Feminist peace and security governance and the UN Security Council 238 Victoria Scheyer and Marina Kumskova 20 Feminist interventions in trade governance 250 Erin Hannah, Adrienne Roberts and Silke Trommer 21 Feminist governance and climate change 262 Maria Tanyag 22 Transnational feminism and global governance 274 Valentine M. Moghadam 23 UN Women: a case of feminist global governance? 286 Andrea den Boer and Kirsten Haack PART IV THE EUROPEAN UNION AND FEMINIST GOVERNANCE 24 The European Parliament as a gender equality actor: a contradictory forerunner 299 Johanna Kantola and Emanuela Lombardo 25 EU gender equality policy and the progressive dismantling of feminist governance? 311 Sophie Jacquot 26 Challenges to feminist knowledge? The economisation of EU gender equality policy 323 Anna Elomäki Contents vii 27 Velvet triangles and more: alliances of supranational EU gender equality actors 335 Petra Ahrens 28 Intersectional feminist activisms in Europe: invisibility, inclusivity and affirmation 347 Serena D’Agostino 29 Feminist governance in the field of violence against women: the case of the Istanbul Convention 359 Andrea Krizsán and Conny Roggeband PART V OTHER REGIONAL PERSPECTIVES ON FEMINIST GOVERNANCE 30 Building gender norms into regional governance and the limits of institutionalising feminism 371 Toni Haastrup 31 Feminist institutions and implications for gender equality in East Asia 384 Jiso Yoon 32 Feminist governance in Asia: areas of contestation and cooperation 396 Rashila Ramli and Sharifah Syahirah 33 Latin American perspectives on feminist governance: between mainstreaming and sidestreaming challenges 408 Gisela Zaremberg 34 Feminist governance in North America: manifestations, manipulations and mirages 421 Alexandra Dobrowolsky and Tammy Findlay 35 Feminist regional governance in the Pacific Islands 434 Kerryn Baker and Renee O’Shanassy Index 446 Contributors Karin Aggestam is Professor of Political Science, Director of the Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies at Lund University, Sweden, and Adjunct Professor at Monash University, Australia. She is also Scientific Coordinator of the Strategic Research Area and Programme: Middle East in the Contemporary World and a leading expert on peacebuilding, diplomacy and feminist foreign policy. Her publications include nine books and contributions to Handbooks on peace diplomacy, hydropolitics, gender, conflict analysis, foreign policy, negotiation/mediation, the Israeli–Palestinian conflict and Middle East politics. Petra Ahrens is a Senior Researcher in Gender Studies at Tampere University, Finland. She examines European Union gender politics, transnational civil society organisations, and gender equality in Germany. She has recently obtained a five-year Academy of Finland Research Fellow project to study gender sensitive parliaments in Finland, Germany and Poland. Kerryn Baker is a Fellow in the Department of Pacific Affairs at the Australian National University. Her research on gender, politics and participation has been published in leading journals including the Australian Journal of Political Science, Pacific Affairs, Government and Opposition and Parliamentary Affairs. Her book Pacific Women in Politics: Gender Quota Campaigns in the Pacific Islands was published by University of Hawaii Press in 2019 and she is the co-editor (with Marian Sawer) of Gender Innovation in Political Science: New Norms, New Knowledge (Palgrave, 2019). Julie Ballington is a global policy advisor on women’s political participation at UN Women, where she leads a team providing policy and technical support to states. She has published widely on policy measures to promote women’s political participation, including through adoption of special measures, institutional reforms and prevention of violence against women in politics. She led UN Women’s work to measure women’s representation at the local level, reported for the first time in 2020. Lee Ann Banaszak is Professor of Political Science and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at The Pennsylvania State University and Head of the Department of Political Science. She has written widely on women’s movements, gender and public opinion, and gender and policy, including Why Movements Succeed or Fail (Princeton University Press, 1996) and the Women’s Movement Inside and Outside the State (Cambridge University Press, 2010). Her current research explores voting rights at the intersection of gender, race and class, and exam- ines how institutional processes of maintaining voting rolls in the USA leads to inequality in voter access. Srilatha Batliwala is Senior Advisor, Knowledge Building with CREA (Creating Resources for Empowerment in Action), Senior Associate, Gender at Work and honorary Professor of Practice at SOAS, University of London. Over the past 45 years, her work has included building grassroots movements of the most marginalised urban and rural women in Mumbai and Karnataka state in India, developing theory from practice, cutting-edge research on gender issues and empowerment strategies, and capacity building of young activists in feminist move- viii Contributors ix ment building and leadership. She has written and published extensively, and is best known for her work on power and empowerment, women’s movements and movement building, feminist leadership and feminist approaches to monitoring and evaluation. Sarah Childs is Professor of Politics and Gender at the University of Edinburgh. Her book Feminist Democratic Representation (with Karen Celis) was published by Oxford University Press in 2020. Childs is also the author of The Good Parliament Report (2016), which fol- lowed a secondment to the House of Commons, and is completing her new book, Designing and Building Feminist Institutions. Monica Costa is an economist and gender and development researcher with a particular focus on the application of gender-responsive budgeting (GRB). Her book – Gender Responsive Budgeting in Fragile States: The Case of Timor-Leste (Routledge, 2018) – is the first to address the potential of GRB in fragile state contexts. She has published in leading journals and has worked on gender issues in Australia, Portugal, Timor-Leste, Solomon Islands and Indonesia. Serena D’Agostino is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Centre for Migration, Diversity and Justice (CMDJ) of the Brussels School of Governance (BSoG), Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB). She is the coordinator of the VUB Strategic Research Programme ‘Evaluating Democratic Governance in Europe’ (EDGE). Her research interests lie at the crossroads of (political) intersectionality, activism/social movements and minority politics and rights – with a focus on Romani (gender) politics and Roma (women’s) rights in Europe. Her work has been published in Politics, Groups, and Identities, the European Journal of Politics and Gender and the Journal of Diversity and Gender Studies, among others. Sara E. Davies is a Professor in the School of Government and International Relations at Griffith University, Australia. Her research is in global health governance, gender and human security. She most recently published Containing Contagion: Politics of Disease Outbreaks in Southeast Asia (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019) and is co-editor of The Oxford Handbook on Women, Peace and Security (Oxford University Press, 2019). Andrea den Boer is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Politics and International Relations at the University of Kent (UK). Her research focuses on gender and international relations, with an emphasis on women’s rights, women’s security, and the causes and consequences of violence against women. She is a Co-Principal Investigator on the WomanStats Project, an international database and interdisciplinary research project on the linkage between the situation of women and the security of nation states. Michelle Deshong is a Kuku Yulanji woman and an Indigenous gender advocate, with par- ticular interest in the participation of Aboriginal women in public and political life. She has published widely in these areas and has expertise on leadership and governance. She works closely with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women across the country for empower- ment, representation and equality. Alexandra Dobrowolsky, Professor of Political Science, Saint Mary’s University, explores gender, representation and citizenship in an array of publications, including six books, among them the edited collections: Women and Public Policy in Canada: Neoliberalism and After (Oxford University Press, 2009); and with Fiona MacDonald, Turbulent Times and

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