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Subversively Accommodating: Feminist Bureaucrats and Gender Mainstreaming

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Is it possible to secure the desired policy action ‘infusing’ gender into existing ways of doing and organising things – and by so doing to incrementally secure real gains for women? Or will transformative policies for women's empowerment only be achieved through discursive and organisational transformation? But can the two be separated so neatly? Are there possibly unpredictable effects when feminist policy actors are on the one hand committed to changing discourse and power relations while on the other hand acting pragmatically to secure small instrumental changes? Taking international development organisations as the field of analysis, this article examines assumptions about policy change as a pathway of women's empowerment and goes on to explore a shift from a focus on institutional capability to one on actors and agency, and on strategies, tactics and manoeuvres.

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  • Rosalind Eyben, 2010. "Subversively Accommodating: Feminist Bureaucrats and Gender Mainstreaming," IDS Bulletin, Blackwell Publishing, vol. 41(2), pages 54-61, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:wly:idsxxx:v:41:y:2010:i:2:p:54-61
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    1. Rebecca Tildesley & MariaCaterina La Barbera & Emanuela Lombardo, 2023. "“What use is the legislation to me?” Contestations around the meanings of gender equality in legislation and its strategic use to drive structural change in university organizations," Gender, Work and Organization, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 30(6), pages 1996-2013, November.
    2. Andrea Cornwall, 2014. "Women's Empowerment: What Works and Why?," WIDER Working Paper Series wp-2014-104, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
    3. Lars Engberg-Pedersen, 2018. "Do norms travel? The case of gender in Danish development cooperation," Progress in Development Studies, , vol. 18(3), pages 153-171, July.
    4. Rebecca Tiessen, 2019. "What’s New about Canada’s Feminist International Assistance Policy and Why ‘More of the Same’ Matters," SPP Research Papers, The School of Public Policy, University of Calgary, vol. 12(44), December.
    5. Mergaert, Lut and Emanuela Lombardor, 2014. "Resistance to implementing gender mainstreaming in EU research policy," European Integration online Papers (EIoP), European Community Studies Association Austria (ECSA-A), vol. 18, November.

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