Handbook on Gender, Diversity and Federalism (International Handbooks on Gender series)

"This insightful Handbook offers a comprehensive exploration of the third generation of gender and federalism studies. Contributors explore the intersection of federalism and decolonization in Global South countries, dissecting transitions between authoritarian regimes and democratic governance and mapping new issues in Western federations, such as LGBTQ rights and separatism. Key chapters examine critical policy issues in federations, drawing on a range of disciplines to offer fresh insights into how federal practices, institutions and discourses interact with gender and other diversities including 'race', religion and sexual minorities. In this timely and authoritative examination, feminist scholars in both the West and the Global South debate the impact of state architectures on women's movements, partisan organizations and policy advocacy using innovative discursive, institutional and intersectional approaches. This Handbook will be of interest to researchers and students of gender and federalism studies; feminist political scientists; traditional federalism scholars; feminist researchers in gender-focused social science fields; mainstream and feminist policy analysts and practitioners; and comparative politics scholars"-- Provided by publisher Front Matter 2 Copyright 5 Contents 6 Figures 9 Tables 10 Contributors 11 Foreword 16 Preface 18 Acknowledgments 21 1. Introduction to Handbook on Gender, Diversity and Federalism 22 PART I THEORETICAL AND COMPARATIVE APPROACHES 36 2. How can comparative studies of federations be gendered? Gendering inter-governmental relations 37 3. Does federalism support policy innovation for children and families? Canada in comparative context 53 4. Federalism, gender equality and religious rights: Canada and Nigeria 69 5. Federalism and women’s descriptive representation 84 6. Mapping the terrain: Gender in global governance and the federal option 97 7. Comparing country-wide women’s organizations in Canada and the United States in the age of decentralization 112 PART II THIRD-WAVE GENDER/FEDERALISM RESEARCH IN SOME ‘WESTERN’ FEDERATIONS 127 8. Federalism, courts and LGBTQ policy in Canada 128 9. Reproducing the masculine, neoliberal state: Canadian federalism doctrine and the judicial deregulation of reproductive technologies 141 10. Trump’s ‘principles of economic mobility’ and Medicaid: Gender, race and federalism 156 11. Federalism and women’s equality rights campaigns in Canada 170 12. The gendered territorial dynamics of the Spanish State of Autonomies 187 13. Regendering the federal bargain in Canada 201 14. Feminism and federalism in Australia: Pushing federalism beyond territory 215 PART III THIRD-WAVE GENDER/FEDERALISM RESEARCH IN THE GLOBAL SOUTH: LATIN AMERICA, ASIA AND AFRICA 231 Latin America 232 15. The federal restriction of women’s rights: Argentina’s politics on abortion and contraception 233 16. National law and territorialized public policy goods: The violence against women law in Brazil 248 17. Women’s policy agencies and federalism: INMUJERES in Mexico 266 Asia 283 18. Devolution and the multilevel politics of gender in Pakistan 284 19. Gender, federalism and the state in India 300 20. The political economy of gender budgeting: Empirical evidence from India 315 21. Indian federalism and violence against women: A complex web of power relationships 327 22. ‘Nested newness’ and the engendering of regional autonomy: Women’s rights and equality in Hong Kong 342 Africa 358 23. #Bring Back Our Girls: Girls’ education and women’s security in northern Nigeria 359 Index 372 "This insightful Handbook offers a comprehensive exploration of the third generation of gender and federalism studies. Contributors explore the intersection of federalism and decolonization in Global South countries, dissecting transitions between authoritarian regimes and democratic governance and mapping new issues in Western federations, such as LGBTQ rights and separatism. Key chapters examine critical policy issues in federations, drawing on a range of disciplines to offer fresh insights into how federal practices, institutions and discourses interact with gender and other diversities including 'race', religion and sexual minorities. In this timely and authoritative examination, feminist scholars in both the West and the Global South debate the impact of state architectures on women's movements, partisan organizations and policy advocacy using innovative discursive, institutional and intersectional approaches. This Handbook will be of interest to researchers and students of gender and federalism studies; feminist political scientists; traditional federalism scholars; feminist researchers in gender-focused social science fields; mainstream and feminist pol and practitioners; and comparative politics scholars"-- Prové de l'editor