Kenneth A. Loparo & Kenneth A. Loparo 
Gender Equality Norms in Regional Governance 
Transnational Dynamics in Europe, South America and Southern Africa

This book analyses the diffusion of norms concerning gender-based violence and gender mainstreaming of aid and trade between the EU, South America and Southern Africa. Norm diffusion is conceptualized as a truly multidirectional and polycentric process, shaped by regional governance and resulting in new geometries of transnational activism.

Table of Content

1. Introducing the Book; Anna van der Vleuten, Anouka van Eerdewijk and Conny Roggeband PART I 2. Regional Governance, Gender and Transnationalism: A First Exploration; Anna van der Vleuten and Anouka van Eerdewijk 3. Gender Equality Norm Diffusion and Actor Constellations: A First Exploration; Anouka van Eerdewijk and Conny Roggeband PART II 4. EU and the Export of Gender Equality Norms: Myth and Facts; Alison E. Woodward and Anna van der Vleuten 5. Gender Mainstreaming in EU Development Policy towards Southern Africa and South America; Petra Debusscher 6. Gender Mainstreaming in Mercosur and in Mercosur-EU Trade Relations; Andrea Ribeiro Hoffmann 7. Latin American Advocacy on Violence Against Women and the OAS Convention; Conny Roggeband 8. Gender Mainstreaming in SADC and in SADC-EU Trade Relations; Anna van der Vleuten and Merran Hulse 9. Regional Advocacy on Violence Against Women and the SADC Gender Protocol; Anouka van Eerdewijk and Joni van de Sand PART III 10. Reconceptualizing Gender Equality Norm Diffusion and Regional Governance: Logics and Geometries; Conny Roggeband, Anouka van Eerdewijk and Anna van der Vleuten

About the author

Petra Debusscher, University of Antwerp, Belgium Merran Hulse, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands Andrea Ribeiro Hoffmann, Free University Berlin, Germany Joni van de Sand, WO=MEN Dutch Gender Platform, The Netherlands Alison Woodward, Free University of Brussels, Belgium