Feminism, Democratization and De-Democratization: Brexit and the Future of the EU

Feminism is part of the processes of democratization and de-democratization occurring in the context of Brexit and the EU crisis. To make feminism visible for analysis, it is conceptualized as a project rather than identity. The paper analyses the repositioning of the gendered subsidiarity boundary, that divides competences between the EU-level and Member States. The implications of the re-gendering of the EU institutions and architecture for democratisation and de-democratisation are discussed.