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The Power of EU Masculinities: A Feminist Contribution to European Integration Theory

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This article advances feminist analysis in the study of European integration through a focus on gender power in relation to masculinity constructs. It takes issue with the fact that gender studies tend to equate gender with women. It sketches a feminist contribution to integration theory, where the EU is perceived as gender regimes at multiple levels. Gender identity constructs – masculinities and femininities – rely on difference and are shifting across time, levels and sectors. Yet the variations of identity constructs are limited by well-established ideas – gender binaries – providing continuity and path dependences to maintain the gender system, for example through the ‘EU protector masculinity’ in the EU CSDP. European integration thus is a process whereby EU masculinities and femininities are constructed through EU relations to other states in the global context and in EU policy-making and institution-building.

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  • Annica Kronsell, 2016. "The Power of EU Masculinities: A Feminist Contribution to European Integration Theory," Journal of Common Market Studies, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 54(1), pages 104-120, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:jcmkts:v:54:y:2016:i:1:p:104-120
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