Gendering the European Parliament

This is a timely collection that not only demonstrates the agency of the European parliament in shaping European norms and practices, but also provides an important feminist dimension to the study of a key institution of European integration This book is a 'must read' for those interested in parliamentary agency, EU integration and gender equality promotion and institutionalisation within the European institutions. -- Toni Haastrup, University of Stirling

This timely and important book allows scholars to understand the genderedness of the European Parliament (EP) at a crucial moment for democracy, when the EP has strengthened its powers simultaneously with the growth of populist, right-leaning parties. The brilliant analysis of actors' dynamics, institutionalization, and discursive contestation presents the European Parliament as a multifaceted arena of democratic power struggles in which feminist empowerment co-exists with opposition to gender equality. -- Emanuela Lombardo, Madrid Complutense University

This important collection addresses key issues about both new and continuing actions of the European Parliament, covering policy areas for which the EU has responsibilities and commitments to democracy and diversity as well as gender equality. The book presents cutting-edge research, drawing on the analysis of an up-and-coming young cohort of experts as well as established scholars. A must read. -- Jane Jenson, Université de Montréal

Petra Ahrens is Senior Researcher at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Tampere University, Finland. Her research focuses on gender politics in the European Union, and social politics in Germany. She also provides expertise as a policy consultant on gender equality policy for German public administration. She is the author of Actors, Institutions, and the Making of EU Gender Equality Programmes. (Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming October 2017). She has published book chapters as well as articles and she is co-editor of the German journal "Femina Politica".

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Lise Rolandsen Agustín is Associate Professor at the Department of Politics and Society at Aalborg University, Denmark. Her research focuses on social movements, intersectionality and gender-based violence. She is a member of FREIA (Feminist Research Center in Aalborg) and EDGE (Center for Equality, Diversity and Gender) and participates in bEUcitizen: All Rights Reserved? Constraints and Contradictions of European Citizenship, EC FP7 (2013-2017) and in Gender Regimes in Politics (GRIP), Velux (2014-2017). She is the author of Gender Equality, Intersectionality and Diversity in Europe (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013) and she has published chapters in various books as well as articles in journals such as Politics, European Journal of Women's Studies, and Social Politics.