Introduction: thirty years of gender mainstreaming – promises, limitations, and the future of equality
(2026) Research Handbook on Gender Mainstreaming — ISBN: [9781035353415], 1-8, accepted/in-press
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- This introduction presents the objectives of this handbook: to offer a synthesis of existing research, to make the rich and dense scholarship on gender mainstreaming both visible and accessible to a broad audience, and to foster new debates and critical engagement for scholars. Gathering leading specialists from across regions and fields of study, and adopting a multidisciplinary perspective, the handbook embraces a broad and inclusive understanding of gender mainstreaming, acknowledging its dual nature as both a political strategy comprising a wealth of policy instruments with profound political ramifications and a conceptual tool essential for policy analysis and feminist scholarship. This introduction offers a critical and reflexive assessment of gender mainstreaming, interrogating its promises, limitations and transformations amid rising global challenges against gender+ equality, but also reaffirming its relevance in this context. It also details the choices that have guided the handbook’s composition and presents its organization and structure.
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Jacquot, S., Ahrens, P., D’Agostino, S., Palmieri, S., & Zaremberg, G. (2026). Introduction: thirty years of gender mainstreaming – promises, limitations, and the future of equality. In Sophie Jacquot, Petra Ahrens, Serena D’Agostino, Sonia Palmieri, Gisela Zaremberg (eds.) (ed.), Research Handbook on Gender Mainstreaming (pp. 1-8). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.3224/gender.v13i1.02