Table of Contents

Contents:

1 Introduction to the Handbook of Feminist Governance 1
Marian Sawer, Lee Ann Banaszak, Jacqui True and Johanna Kantola
Timeline of feminist governance 14
Renee O’Shanassy

PART I THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES
2 Feminist organisational principles 25
Kaitlin Kelly-Thompson, Fernando Tormos-Aponte and S. Laurel Weldon
3 Understanding feminist governance through feminist institutionalism:
an overview 38
Lisa Guido, Lindsay Walsh and Lee Ann Banaszak
4 Feminist governance and the state 51
Johanna Kantola
5 Do feminist insiders matter? Progress in conceptualization and
comparative theory-building 63
Amy G. Mazur and Dorothy E. McBride
6 Feminist perspectives on multilevel governance 76
Meryl Kenny and Tània Verge
7 Seeking intersectionality in feminist governance 88
Erica Townsend-Bell
8 Studying feminist governance: methods and approaches to the field 100
Shan-Jan Sarah Liu

PART II EVOLVING INSTITUTIONS
9 Weaving a feminist power tapestry: feminist governance in practice 113
Caroline Lambert, Jessica Horn, Srilatha Batliwala, Michelle Deshong, Tanja
Kovac and Naomi Woyengu
10 National women’s machineries: Trojan horses or hostages? 126
Anne Marie Goetz
11 Gender-responsive budgeting 138
Monica Costa and Rhonda Sharp
12 Specialised parliamentary bodies 150
Marian Sawer
13 Promoting gender equality in elected office 161
Mona Lena Krook and Pippa Norris
14 Gender-sensitive parliaments: feminising formal political institutions 174
Sarah Childs and Sonia Palmieri
15 Tools of the trade: feminist governance in the field 189
Sonia Palmieri and Julie Ballington

PART III INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AND GLOBAL GOVERNANCE
16 The rise of feminist governance in foreign policy 203
Karin Aggestam and Jacqui True
17 Feminist governance in global health 216
Sara E. Davies and Clare Wenham
18 Feminist peacebuilding governance 227
Maria Martin de Almagro
19 Feminist peace and security governance and the UN Security Council 238
Victoria Scheyer and Marina Kumskova
20 Feminist interventions in trade governance 250
Erin Hannah, Adrienne Roberts and Silke Trommer
21 Feminist governance and climate change 262
Maria Tanyag
22 Transnational feminism and global governance 274
Valentine M. Moghadam
23 UN Women: a case of feminist global governance? 286
Andrea Den Boer and Kirsten Haack

PART IV THE EUROPEAN UNION AND FEMINIST GOVERNANCE
24 The European Parliament as a gender equality actor: a contradictory forerunner 299
Johanna Kantola and Emanuela Lombardo
25 EU gender equality policy and the progressive dismantling of feminist
governance 311
Sophie Jacquot
26 Challenges to feminist knowledge? The economisation of EU gender
equality policy 323
Anna Elomäki
27 Velvet triangles and more: alliances of supranational EU gender equality actors 335
Petra Ahrens
28 Intersectional feminist activism in Europe: invisibility, inclusivity and
affirmation 347
Serena D’Agostino
29 Feminist governance in the field of violence against women: the case of
the Istanbul Convention 359
Andrea Krizsán and Conny Roggeband

PART V OTHER REGIONAL PERSPECTIVES ON FEMINIST GOVERNANCE
30 Building gender norms into regional governance and the limits of
institutionalising feminism 371
Toni Haastrup
31 Feminist institutions and implications for gender equality in East Asia 384
Jiso Yoon
32 Feminist governance in Asia: areas of contestation and cooperation 396
Rashila Ramli and Sharifah Syahirah
33 Latin American perspectives on feminist governance: between
mainstreaming and sidestreaming challenges 408
Gisela Zaremberg
34 Feminist governance in North America: manifestations, manipulations
and mirages 421
Alexandra Dobrowolsky and Tammy Findlay
35 Feminist regional governance in the Pacific Islands 434
Kerryn Baker and Renee O’Shanassy

Index 446

About the Author

Edited by Marian Sawer, Emeritus Professor, School of Politics and International Relations, The Australian National University, Australia, Lee Ann Banaszak, Professor, Department of Political Science, The Pennsylvania State University, US, Jacqui True, Professor of International Relations, School of Social Sciences, Monash University, Australia, Johanna Kantola, Professor of European Politics, University of Helsinki, Finland

Reviews

‘The Handbook of Feminist Governance, edited by Sawer, Banaszak, True, and Kantola is an impressive initiative [...] the book’s organization supports the stated ambition to be accessible to both researchers and practitioners. This is the kind of book you put in the hands of someone—a student, a street bureaucrat, an employee of an international organization—who wants a quick introduction to some aspect of feminist governance.’
*Lena Wängnerud and Valeriya Mechkova, Politics & Gender*

‘This novel Handbook brings together many of the leading feminist scholars working on governance at the national, regional and international levels. It ranges widely over the central theoretical and methodological approaches including intersectionality and feminist institutionalism, as well as empirically exploring key feminist issues in many major governance institutions.’
*Georgina Waylen, University of Manchester, UK*

‘This Handbook brings together an outstanding group of scholars to explore the origins, varieties, and impact of institutionalizing feminist values and governance into regional, national, and international policy-making bodies. Sawer, Banaszak, True, and Kantola have crafted a comprehensive survey, focused on the period from the 1970s forward, that covers a range of both geographic and issue areas. The volume also offers lessons in best practices in applying a feminist lens to governance and policy, making it a resource for practitioners as well as researchers and educators.’
*Pamela Paxton, University of Texas at Austin, US*