Comparing Feminist Policy in Politics and at Work in France and Germany: Shared European Union Setting, Divergent National Contexts |
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| Authors: | AMY G. MAZUR SUSANNE ZWINGEL |
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| Affiliation: | Amy G. Mazur is Professor in the Department of Political Science at Washington State University. Her Ph.D. in politics and French studies is from New York University. Her books include: Comparative State Feminism (Sage 1995) (editor, with Dorothy McBride Stetson);Gender Bias and the State: Symbolic Reform at Work in Fifth Republic France (Pittsburgh University Press 1995);State Feminism, Women's Movement, and Job Training: Making Democracies Work in the Global Economy (editor, Routledge 2001);and Theorizing Feminist Policy (Oxford 2002). She has also published articles in Political Research Quarterly, French Politics and Society, Policy Studies Journal, West European Politics, European Journal of Political Research, and Contempora y French Civilization. She is coconvener of the Research Network on Gender Politics and the State.;Susanne Zwingel received her M.A. in political science and sociology from Hamburg University and is a Ph.D. candidate at Bochum University. Her research interests include feminist international relations, international law and human rights from a gendered perspective, and comparative gender policy. The title of her Ph.D. thesis is "How Do Women's Rights Norms Become Effective? An Analysis of the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women and Its Domestic Impact." Recent publications include, What Separates War and Peace? Feminist Thoughts on the Protection of Women's Physical Integrity under International Law, in C. Harders and B. Ross (Eds.), Gender Relations in War and Peace: Feminist Perspectives in International Relations (Opladen: Leske &Budrich 2001);and International Women's Rights in Homeopathic Dosethe CEDAW-Convention and its Impact on National Gender Regimes: The Case of Chile, Welttrends, Journal of International Politics and Comparative Studies, 36 (autumn), 2002. |
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| Abstract: | 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. |
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