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Institutionalizing Intersectionality in the ‘Big Three’: The Changing Equality Framework in France, Germany, and Britain

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This chapter evaluates the ways in which the legal and normative demands of multiple equality strands are being addressed institutionally in the so-called big three countries of Western Europe. It deploys comparative analyses of current state-level reforms in the different types of institutions designed to implement equality policies in France, Germany, and Britain. The chapter documents the ‘policy legacy’ in the domain of equality found in each country at the beginning of the twenty-first century and the patterns of legal-political reforms underway, and evaluates the potential of these reforms for ‘institutionalizing intersectionality’.

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Center for Policy Studies, Central European University, Hungary

    Andrea Krizsan (Research Fellow) (Research Fellow)

  2. Department of Political Science, University of Oslo, Norway

    Hege Skjeie (Professor of Political Science) (Professor of Political Science)

  3. University of Bristol, UK

    Judith Squires (Professor of Political Theory) (Professor of Political Theory)

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Hermanin, C., Squires, J. (2012). Institutionalizing Intersectionality in the ‘Big Three’: The Changing Equality Framework in France, Germany, and Britain. In: Krizsan, A., Skjeie, H., Squires, J. (eds) Institutionalizing Intersectionality. Gender and Politics series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137031068_4

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