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Holst, Cathrine - RECON - 2011

Equal pay for work of equal value is a fundamental principle in EU law and so in the EEA Agreement. The paper takes as its point of departure the debate in Norway on the interpretation of EEA equal pay legislation, and relates this debate to the broader equal pay controversy in Norway. Among...

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RECON: A Feminist View

Sara Clavero, Yvonne Galligan, Cathrine Holst, Róza Vajda - RECON - 2011

This paper examines the three models of democracy delineated in the RECON project and subjects them to a feminist …. In the final section, the paper discusses how the deliberative conception of democracy underpinning the RECON analytical … concludes that RECON standard of deliberative democracy is not hostile, but silent, on this matter. …

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Gender equality in the European Union: lessons for democracy?

Clavero, Sara; Galligan, Yvonne - RECON - 2010

The gendered nature of democratic decision-making in the EU is the focus of this paper. It outlines a theoretical model of democracy that looks at public decision-making processes through a gender lens: gender democracy. It then takes two instances of democratic decision-making in the European...

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Assessing Gender Democracy in the European Union. A Methodological Framework

Galligan, Yvonne; Clavero, Sara - RECON - 2008

Democracy in Europe (RECON). After describing the general background to the development of this methodology, the paper discusses …

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Researching gender democracy in the European Union: Challenges and prospects

Galligan, Yvonne; Clavero, Sara - RECON - 2008

This paper outlines a research programme for the study of democracy in the European Union (EU) from a gender perspective. It takes as its point of departure the recent turn to deliberative democracy in the field of EU studies, and more particularly, the claim that these theories can provide a...

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Gender justice in the European Union: The normative subtext of methodological choices

Holst, Cathrine - RECON - 2008

The efforts of the EU to facilitate gender justice, have been substantial historically, and are ongoing. An EU gender justice index is to be launched in the near future, adding to other efforts. The index is to be based on recommendations in the Commission funded report towards an EU gender...

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'Europe', 'Womanhood' and 'Islam': Re-aligning Contested Concepts via the Headscarf Debate

Onar, Nora Fisher - RECON - 2011

Europe, Womanhood, and Islam are concepts infused with what Ricoeur called a surplus of meaning. That is, they bear diverse and often contradictory significations for observers at different times and places. This paper compares the interplay of tensions between the concepts by unpacking how they...

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Women's rights in Turkey as gauge of its European vocation: The impact of ‘EU-niversal values’

Muftuler-Bac, Meltem; Onar, Nora Fisher - RECON - 2010

It is often assumed that Turkey’s chance of accession to the EU would be enhanced were the European project to move in an inclusive, cosmopolitan direction. However, the inclusion of women’s rights and post-sexual revolution sexuality in the battery of ‘EU-niversal’ values could still...

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Gender identity in a democratic Europe

Schleicher, Nora - RECON - 2010

This paper examines the relationship between gender identity, feminism and democracy in the context of the European Union. In the first part of the paper, Schleicher examines the concept of gender and pose the question: under which circumstances can and should the term ‘gender’ replace the...

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Martha Nussbaum’s Outcome-Oriented Theory of Justice: Philosophical Comments

Holst, Cathrine - RECON - 2010

critical points of the first four parts relate to European studies discussions on legitimacy in general and to RECON …

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