Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Two Logics, One Life -- 3. A Velvet Vision: The Economic Liberalization (and Liberation) of the Czech Republic -- 4. Rational Economic (Wo)Men: Market Mantras and Managers -- 5. No (Wo)Man's Land: The Postsocialist Purgatory of Czech...

In the European Union's (EU) fifth enlargement, the post-socialist states autocratically adopted a set of internationally derived, EU-mandated gender equality legal norms and institutional mechanisms as part of harmonization. Seeking legitimacy, supranational and national, state and civil...

In this special issue of the European Integration online Papers (EIoP), we reconsider the practicability of gender mainstreaming in the European Union (EU) and its traction in the European integration project more broadly. We follow the feminist institutionalist turn which seeks to bring...