Handbook of Feminist Governance

491 Pages·2023·4.686 MB·English

by  Marian Sawer (editor), Lee A. Banaszak (editor), Jacqui True (editor), Johanna Kantola (editor)

HANDBOOK OF FEMINIST GOVERNANCE
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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
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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
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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-
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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