Bridging Rhetoric and Practice

This article presents a new methodology, Gender Knowledge Contestation Analysis, and uses it to examine the processes under way when transformative gender equality policies, such as gender mainstreaming are implemented. Drawing on data gathered in the European Commission, the findings show the processes linking high-level rhetorical policy statements, strategic policies, and daily working practices. This analysis enables exploration of the mechanisms through which indifference to and nonawareness of gendered policy problems are collectively constituted and methods through which they can be challenged. Findings thus deepen our understanding of barriers to the implementation of gender mainstreaming and the steps required for its effective implementation

Bridging (networking · Business · Commission · European commission · European union · Gender equality · Gender mainstreaming · Mainstreaming · Political science · Public relations · Rhetoric · Rhetorical question · Sociology · Transformative learning · Computer Science · Gender Diversity and Inequality · Gender Politics and Representation · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Law · Public Administration

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