CANS 406 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Intersectionality, Gender Mainstreaming, Execution Unit
22 May 2018
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Cavaghan Guest Lecture
-Feminist studies still shying away from economic policies
-The EU looks like a trailblazer in gender equality:
-1957 Treaty of Rome: equal pay
-1997 Treaty of Amsterdam: gender equality an aim of the EU, discussion on sex
trafficking
-1997 Communication on Gender Mainstreaming
-EU’s understanding of gender equality is a narrow one – not much attention to quality of work
women are doing, it is a throwaway legitimation
-Women means white working women
-Hansen and Kronsel: political arena within the EU is focused on economic policies, and ignores
collective, group-based problem
-Majority of research in feminist EU studies doesn’t go a good job of operationalizing
intersectional feminism
-When the EU talks about gender equality, they universalize the interests of white European
women who want to work
-Policy doesn’t extend to experience of women of color, while white women have
benefitted from some of these EU policies
-EU still hasn’t given universal child care, increasing demand for domestic workers,
which usually women of color fill and are exploited in
-Intersectional hierarchies between women are exacerbated by the EU’s effort at gender equality
-Example of EU airline deregulation leading to a jump in demand for sex work in Eastern
Europe, because these flights became cheaper and therefore lead to increased gendered
hierarchies
-Feminist approaches to integration theory look at what kind of relationship between the EU and
states would lead to involvement of women
-Gender is socially constructed, fluid, and constantly re-negotiated in action, and is implicated in
the distribution of resources, role, expectations and power
-State plays a key role in the maintenance of gendered hierarchies
-Maternity leave/pay, for example
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Document Summary
Feminist studies still shying away from economic policies. The eu looks like a trailblazer in gender equality: 1997 treaty of amsterdam: gender equality an aim of the eu, discussion on sex trafficking. Eu"s understanding of gender equality is a narrow one not much attention to quality of work women are doing, it is a throwaway legitimation. Hansen and kronsel: political arena within the eu is focused on economic policies, and ignores collective, group-based problem. Majority of research in feminist eu studies doesn"t go a good job of operationalizing intersectional feminism. When the eu talks about gender equality, they universalize the interests of white european women who want to work. Policy doesn"t extend to experience of women of color, while white women have benefitted from some of these eu policies. Eu still hasn"t given universal child care, increasing demand for domestic workers, which usually women of color fill and are exploited in.
