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Abstract
The European Parliament (EP) as an institution can be understood as having the potential for becoming ‘a strong public’ which is undergoing a process of building a wider general public: ‘The EP can be conceived of as an incipient transnational public sphere’ (Liebert 2007: 268). This makes the EP an apt institutional setting for analyzing both women´s descriptive representation within it, as well as analyzing the debates about women´s representation, in politics and business, which are taking place within the EP. We thus conduct a two-pronged analysis of the who of public sphere participation (Ferree et al. 2002) by looking both at the gender composition of the EP and the framing of debates about women´s representation within the EP and its Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality (FEMM) during the period 2000-2011.
Translated title of the contribution | Kvinder, deltagelse og Europa-Parlamentet |
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Original language | English |
Title of host publication | Negotiating Gender and Diversity in an Emergent European Public Sphere |
Editors | Birte Siim, Monika Mokre |
Number of pages | 22 |
Place of Publication | Basingstoke |
Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan |
Publication date | Jan 2013 |
Pages | 201-222 |
Chapter | 11 |
ISBN (Print) | 978-0-230-35968-0 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Jan 2013 |
Series | Gender and Politics |
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Number | 5 |
Volume | 2013 |
Keywords
- European Parliament
- Quotas
- Representation
- Participation
- FEMM Committee
- European enlargement
- Transnational
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EUROSPHERE - Diversity and the European Public Sphere. Towards a Citizens' Europe?
Siim, B., Pristed Nielsen, H. & Rolandsen Agustín, L.
01/02/2007 → 31/01/2012
Project: Research