The Power of EU Masculinities: A Feminist Contribution to European Integration Theory
(2016) In Journal of Common Market Studies 54(1). p.104-120- Abstract
- This article advances feminist analysis in the study of European integration through a focus on gender power in relation to masculinity constructs. It takes issue with the fact that gender studies tend to equate gender with women. It sketches a feminist contribution to integration theory, where the EU is perceived as gender regimes at multiple levels. Gender identity constructs-masculinities and femininities-rely on difference and are shifting across time, levels and sectors. Yet the variations of identity constructs are limited by well-established ideas-gender binaries-providing continuity and path dependences to maintain the gender system, for example through the ' EU protector masculinity ' in the EU CSDP. European integration thus is a... (More)
- This article advances feminist analysis in the study of European integration through a focus on gender power in relation to masculinity constructs. It takes issue with the fact that gender studies tend to equate gender with women. It sketches a feminist contribution to integration theory, where the EU is perceived as gender regimes at multiple levels. Gender identity constructs-masculinities and femininities-rely on difference and are shifting across time, levels and sectors. Yet the variations of identity constructs are limited by well-established ideas-gender binaries-providing continuity and path dependences to maintain the gender system, for example through the ' EU protector masculinity ' in the EU CSDP. European integration thus is a process whereby EU masculinities and femininities are constructed through EU relations to other states in the global context and in EU policy-making and institution-uilding. (Less)
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- author
- Kronsell, Annica LU
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- publishing date
- 2016
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- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
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- Journal of Common Market Studies
- volume
- 54
- issue
- 1
- pages
- 104 - 120
- publisher
- Wiley-Blackwell
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- wos:000368143200007
- scopus:84949745636
- ISSN
- 0021-9886
- DOI
- 10.1111/jcms.12328
- language
- English
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- yes
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- 56aece76-25d4-4a78-848b-944be0c5603b (old id 8747977)
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