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Transnational Collective Mobilisation: Challenges for Women’s Movements in Europe

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Negotiating Gender and Diversity in an Emergent European Public Sphere

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To an increasing extent, women organise collectively at the transnational, European level. They are, however, challenged in their efforts to combine gender equality concerns with diversity. Different organisations and networks address this challenge in different ways. The transnational panorama of European women’s organisations shows that the field is characterised by one strong majority organisation, the European Women’s Lobby (EWL), and an increasing number of minority organisations. In this chapter, I compare transnational women’s organisations’ strategies for combining and accommodating gender-and-diversity demands and analyse the relationship between different kinds of women’s organisations at the European, transnational level.

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  1. Department of Culture and Global Studies, Aalborg University, Denmark

    Birte Siim (Professor) (Professor)

  2. IKT – Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria

    Monika Mokre (Research Fellow) (Research Fellow)

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Agustín, L.R. (2013). Transnational Collective Mobilisation: Challenges for Women’s Movements in Europe. In: Siim, B., Mokre, M. (eds) Negotiating Gender and Diversity in an Emergent European Public Sphere. Gender and Politics Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137291295_9

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