The Power of EU Masculinities

Download or read book The Power of EU Masculinities written by Annica Kronsell and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.