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Comparing Feminist Policy in Politics and at Work in France and Germany: Shared European Union Setting, Divergent National Contexts
Author(s) -
MAZUR AMY G.,
ZWINGEL SUSANNE
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
review of policy research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.832
H-Index - 45
eISSN - 1541-1338
pISSN - 1541-132X
DOI - 10.1111/1541-1338.00026
Subject(s) - post industrial society , representation (politics) , german , politics , european union , presentation (obstetrics) , sociology , field (mathematics) , work (physics) , comparative politics , political science , feminism , political economy , gender studies , public administration , law , economics , history , medicine , mechanical engineering , mathematics , archaeology , radiology , engineering , pure mathematics , economic policy
This essay introduces the seven articles in the symposium. Placing this special issue within the purview of the new field of Feminist Comparative Policy, the analysis shows how the symposium contributes to comparative theories of feminist policy formation in Western postindustrial democracies. It then defines the three subareas of feminist policy covered in the rest of the volume—political representation, equal employment, and reconciliation—explains why the German and French cases were selected for comparative analysis, discusses the importance of the ongoing process of Europeanization for feminist policy in the two countries, and finishes with a presentation of the outline for the seven articles.