Gender Equality on a Grand Tour, Politics and Institutions the Nordic Council, Sweden, Lithuania and Russia (International Studies in Sociology and Social Anthropology)

Gender Equality on a Grand Tour. Politics and Institutions - the Nordic Council, Sweden, Lithuania and Russia explores the establishment, development and transformation of gender equality institutions in Sweden, Lithuania and Russia. It pays special attention to the role of the Nordic Council in gender equality institutionalization. Gender Equality on a Grand Tour: Politics and Institutions - the Nordic Council, Sweden, Lithuania and Russia -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction. Gender Equality on a Grand Tour: Politics and Institutions - The Nordic Council, Sweden, Lithuania and Russia -- Theoretical Approaches -- Gender Equality in the Nordic Countries and around the Baltic Sea as a Field of Scholarly Inquiry -- Contents and Structure -- Main Findings -- 2 Gender Equality the Nordic Way: The Nordic Council's and Nordic Council of Ministers' Cooperation with the Baltic States and Northwest Russia in the Political Field of Gender Equality 1999-2010 -- Introduction -- Points of Departure -- The Nordic Council and the Nordic Council of Ministers -- A Nordic Model of Gender Equality -- Bringing Gender Equality on the Political Agenda -- A Difficult Mission -- Utilitarian Politics: The Use of Gender Equality -- Mission Impossible? -- 3 Political Changes and Gender Equality in the Baltic States: The Case of Lithuania -- Introduction -- Politics of Visibility and Recognition in the Baltic States -- Woman Mainstreaming in the Baltic Soviet Socialistic Republics (1940-1990/91) -- Gender Mainstreaming in the Baltic States (1990/91-now) -- Beyond the Management of Equal Opportunities. The Case of Lithuania (1990-2014) -- Conclusions: Mediators and Innovations in Gender Equality Politics in the Baltic States -- 4 I Am Just Looking for a Fair Assessment: The Equal Opportunities Ombudsman in Sweden 1980-2008 -- Introduction -- Starting Point: Influences from UN/EU since the 1960s -- Gender Equality -- Gender Discrimination -- The Transnational Ombudsman -- The Gender Equality Policy Debate -- Conclusion: Gender Equality Gender Equality on a Grand Tour. Politics and Institutions - the Nordic Council, Sweden, Lithuania and Russia explores the politics around the establishment, development and transformation of gender equality institutions in the Nordic countries (on the example of Sweden), in the former communist countries east of the Baltic Sea region (the example of Lithuania) and in the northwestern part of Russia. The authors analyze the interplay between the internationalization and Europeanization of gender equality on the one hand and national and local contexts on the other. Gender Equality on a Grand Tour also is the first study to explore the role of one of the leading transnational actors in the region - the Nordic Council and the Nordic Council of Ministers - in gender equality institutionalization in the Baltic Sea region.-- Provided by Publisher