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Print Price: $84.95

Format:
Hardback
272 pp.
6.125" x 9.25"

ISBN-13:
9780199927197

Publication date:
March 2013

Imprint: OUP US

From Global to Grassroots

The European Union, Transnational Advocacy, and Combating Violence against Women

Celeste Montoya

Series : Oxford Studies in Gender and International Relations

From Global to Grassroots looks at how transnational activism aimed at combating violence against women is being used to instigate changes in local practice. Focusing on the case of the European Union, this study provides empirical and intersectional feminist analysis of the transnational processes that connect global and grassroots advocacy efforts, with a particular emphasis placed on the roles played by regional organizations and networks. Over the past several decades, the complex and evolving system of EU multilevel governance has provided new venues for women's transnational activism. Despite a predominantly economic focus, the EU has undertaken various initiatives that utilize different tools of authority to combat violence against women.

This book first traces the processes by which violence against women became a European Union issue, examining the role played by global movements and organizations as well as European advocates within and outside of EU institutions. Second, it explores and analyzes the different strategies that the EU has utilized to influence its member and candidate states to change their practices. Third, it evaluates the impact that these strategies have had at the local level by investigating the interaction of international and regional efforts with domestic characteristics.

The regional and positional variation provided by the expansion of the EU allows comparative leverage for exploring how different strategies, power relationships, and domestic circumstances interact to provide a range of responses in member and candidate states. While other studies have emphasized formal policy change as evidence that domestic change has occurred, this study looks beyond the rhetoric to examine the extent to which violence against women is addressed, paying special attention to the ways in which different strategies may impact particular groups of women.

Readership : Suitable for teacher, researchers, and students of: political science, public policy, international relations, sociology, women and gender studies, human rights, social movements, Europe, and the European Union; Policy practitioners and advocates concerned with gender equality and human rights issues, particularly that of violence against women.

1. Transnational Translations of Global Rhetoric into Local Realities
2. Patterns and Strategies of Global-Domestic Interactions
3. Mapping Advocacy in European Union Multilevel Governance
4. Embedded Networks and Transnational Advocacy
5. The Soft Approach to Zero Tolerance: Normative Discourses on Violence against Women
6. Conditionality and Coercion: The Accession Process and Combating Violence against Women
7. Building Networks, Building Capacity: The Daphne Program
8. Domestic Development: Legislation, Programs, and Attitudes
9. Future Prospects for Eradicating Violence against Women
Appendix
Bibliography
Index

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Celeste Montoya is Assistant Professor in the Women and Gender Studies Program at the University of Colorado-Boulder.

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Special Features

Provides extensive data regarding violence against women in the European Union.
Uses sophisticated multilevel and mixed method approach that combines feminist and nonfeminist approaches.
Builds from and contributes to theory on transnational politics, social movements, international organizations, public policy, and intersectional gender politics.