Governing Gender Equality Policy: Pathways in a Changing Nordic Welfare State (Gender and Politics)

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Acknowledgements
Contents
About the Authors
List of Figures
List of Tables
Chapter 1: Introduction: Governing Gender Equality Policy in Changing State
	Introduction
	Feminists Theorise Public Governance: Locating Our Focus and Contribution
	Zooming in on Four Trends in Public Governance Reform
	Analysing Governance Reforms and Their Effects as Context-Specific: Focus on Finland
	Methodological Starting Points
	Structure of the Book
	References
Chapter 2: Theorising Shifting Public Governance from a Feminist Perspective
	Introduction
	Integrated Theoretical Framework for Feminist Analysis of Public Governance
		Post-structuralist Approaches to Governance
		Feminist Political Economy Approaches to Governance
		Feminist Institutionalist Approaches to Governance
	Economisation
		What Is Economisation?
		Economisation as a Gendered Process and Economisation of Gender Equality Policy
	Depoliticisation
		Depoliticisation as the Denial of Contingency
		Depoliticisation as the Sidelining of Gendered Power
		Two-Dimensional Approach to Depoliticisation
	Analysing Gender Equality–Economy Relations
	References
Chapter 3: Strategic Governance and the Shifting Form of Gender Equality Policy
	Introduction
	Strategic Governance as Managerial Governance
	From Ideas to Implementation: Strategic Governance Reform of 2015
	Action Plans for Gender Equality as Governance Tools
	Instrumentalisation and Sidelining of Gender Equality Policy
	Narrowing the Scope of Gender Equality Policy
	Technocratisation of Gender Equality Policy
	Conclusions
	References
Chapter 4: Workfare Reform and Family Leave Policy
	Introduction
	From Welfare to Workfare: A Gendered Process
	Family Policies and Gender Equality Policies in Finland
	The First Round: Family Leave Reform as an Employment Reform
	Women as Targets of Workfare
	The Second Round: Family Policy as an Investment
	Women’s Reproductive Labour in the Welfare State Reform
	Conclusions
	References
Chapter 5: Economic Governance and Gender Budgeting
	Introduction
	Gender Budgeting as an International Public Governance Fashion
	Economic Governance, Restructuring of Welfare States and Depoliticisation
	Constructions of Gender Equality in Gender Budgeting Practices
	Understandings of Economy in Gender Budgeting
	Making Gendered Impacts Visible: Institutional and Political Hurdles
	Changes in Economic Governance Constrain Gender Budgeting
	Economic Governance Reforms Constrain Gender Equality Policy
	Conclusions
	References
Chapter 6: Evidence-Based Policy and Feminist Knowledge
	Introduction
	Evidence-Based Policy-Making and Changing Knowledge-Policy Relations
	Professionalisation of Gender Equality Policy and Transformation of Feminist Knowledge
	Feminist Interventions in Economic Policies in Finland
	Feminist Experts Meet Economics’ Gatekeepers
	Feminists Becoming Economic Experts
	Strategic Partnerships with Credible Knowledge Producers
	Exclusionary Practices of Gender Expertise
	Conclusions
	References
Chapter 7: Conclusions
	Introduction
	A Silent Backlash
	Co-optation Versus Strategic Openings: The Subtle Transformativity of Feminist Strategies
	Gender Equality–Economy Relations
	References
Appendix Research Projects and Data
Index