Gender equality on a grand tour : politics and institutions -- the Nordic Council, Sweden, Lithuania and Russia

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    • Blomberg, Eva

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Gender equality on a grand tour : politics and institutions -- the Nordic Council, Sweden, Lithuania and Russia

by Eva Blomberg ... [et al.]

(International studies in sociology and social anthropology, v. 128)

Brill, c2017

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Gender equality on a grand tour : politics and institutions, the Nordic Council, Sweden, Lithuania and Russia

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [321]-361) and index

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Gender Equality on a Grand Tour. Politics and Institutions - the Nordic Council, Sweden, Lithuania and Russia explores the politics around the establishment, development and transformation of gender equality institutions in the Nordic countries (on the example of Sweden), in the former communist countries east of the Baltic Sea region (the example of Lithuania) and in the northwestern part of Russia. The authors analyze the interplay between the internationalization and Europeanization of gender equality on the one hand and national and local contexts on the other. Gender Equality on a Grand Tour also is the first study to explore the role of one of the leading transnational actors in the region - the Nordic Council and the Nordic Council of Ministers - in gender equality institutionalization in the Baltic Sea region.

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Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations 1 Introduction. Gender Equality on a Grand Tour: Politics and Institutions - The Nordic Council, Sweden, Lithuania and Russia Eva Blomberg, Yulia Gradskova, Ylva Waldemarson and Alina Zvinkliene Theoretical Approaches Gender Equality in the Nordic Countries and Around the Baltic Sea as a Field of Scholarly Inquiry Contents and Structure Main Findings 2 Gender Equality the Nordic Way: The Nordic Council's and Nordic Council of Ministers' Cooperation with the Baltic States and Northwest Russia in the Political Field of Gender Equality 1999-2010 Ylva Waldemarson Introduction Points of Departure The Nordic Council and the Nordic Council of Ministers A Nordic Model of Gender Equality Bringing Gender Equality on the Political Agenda A Difficult Mission Utilitarian Politics: The Use of Gender Equality Mission Impossible? 3 Political Changes and Gender Equality in the Baltic States: The Case of Lithuania Alina Zvinkliene Introduction Politics of Visibility and Recognition in the Baltic States Woman Mainstreaming in the Baltic Soviet Socialistic Republics (1940-1990/91) Gender Mainstreaming in the Baltic States (1990/91-now) Beyond the Management of Equal Opportunities. The Case of Lithuania (1990-2014) Conclusions: Mediators and Innovations in Gender Equality Politics in the Baltic States 4 I Am Just Looking for a Fair Assessment: The Equal Opportunities Ombudsman in Sweden 1980-2008 Eva Blomberg Introduction Starting Point: Influences from un/eu since the 1960s Gender Equality Gender Discrimination The Transnational Ombudsman The Gender Equality Policy Debate Conclusion: Gender Equality 5 Russia - A "Difficult Case" for Gender Equality? The Transnational Politics of Women's Rights and Northwest Russia: The Case of Nordic-Russian Cooperation Yulia Gradskova Changing Contexts: Soviet "equality of men and women," Post-Soviet Reforms and the Arrival of "gender equality" in Russia Cooperating for Women's Rights and Democracy Building: The Nordic Perspective on Cooperation with Russia Women's Rights Activism and the Institutionalization of Gender Equality: The Perspective of the Actors from Northwest Russia Conclusions Bibliography Index

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