This book aims to initiate a dialogue between European integration theory and gender studies. The contributions illustrate how gender scholarship has made creative use of integration theories. They are designed to make gender scholarship more visible to integration theory and to stimulate the theoretical debate by adding a gender perspective.
The contributors explore the gendered nature of political science and why it is important. The contributions are divided in seven areas: key concepts, methods and methodologies within political science: body politics, which involves the political importance of sexuality, reproduction, violence, and the body: political economy: the relationship of gender to more traditional political institutions and the gendered nature of policy making, governance, and the state: equality, citizenship, multiculturalism, identity, security and nations.