A3 Refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book
Promoting Gender Equality
Authors: Johanna Niemi
Editors: Pia Letto-Vanamo, Ditlev Tamm, Bent Ole Gram Mortensen
Publication year: 2019
Book title : Nordic Law in European Context
Series title: Ius Gentium: Comparative Perspectives on Law and Justice
Volume: 73
First page : 79
Last page: 95
Number of pages: 16
ISBN: 978-3-030-03005-6
eISBN: 978-3-030-03006-3
ISSN: 1534-6781
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03006-3
Self-archived copy’s web address: https://research.utu.fi/converis/portal/detail/Publication/37512552
The article discusses the Nordic legal feminism in the light of the phases of feminist theory. Nordic gender equality policy and law have been integrated with the welfare state, promoting general equality. All Nordic countries have ascribed to strategic equality policies, however, with somewhat different vigour. In all these countries gender equality laws have been assigned an active role in promoting equality and preventing discrimination. Lately, research in law and gender has turned to theory and gender and sex are seen as socially constructed through legal discourses and practices in all fields of law. The chapter argues that different feminist approaches are still relevant for the analysis of law.
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