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

Democracy
Democratisation
Gender
Feminism
Sylvia Walby
University of Lancaster
Sylvia Walby
University of Lancaster

Abstract

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.