Download or read book Verloo-Multiple-Meanings-proof.indd written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Political and Theoretical Debates on Gender Equality: Defining the Political: The Public/Private Dichotomy In the background of debates on gender in/equality frequently lies the funda- mental issue of the definition of the political, and especially the feminist critique of the gendered public/private dichotomy underlying much of the borders of politics (Pateman 1987 and Okin 1991). [...] In order to capture this diversity in the framing of gender in/equality in Europe, the contributors to this book aim at mapping the different meanings of the concept of gender equality across a range of European countries, covering the northwest, the east and the south of Europe: Austria, the Netherlands, Hungary, Slovenia, Greece, and Spain. [...] For instance, the diagnosis of the problem of gender inequality is, for the vision of equality, the exclusion of women from the political; for the vision of reversal, the existence of a male norm; and for the vision of displacement, the gendered world itself. [...] The three models diverge again in the prognosis of the problem they suggest, as the vision of equality represents the inclusion of women in the existing world as a possible solution, while the vision of reversal constructs a solution that challenges the existing male norm by incorporating women's perspectives in the definition of the political, and the vision of displacement proposes to deconstruc. [...] The criteria employed in MAGEEQ, to distinguish the major or most important frames from the minor and more fragmented frames, are: the occurrence of a frame (i.e., most frequent frames), not cal- culated on the basis of numerical frequency of words in the texts but on the researchers' perception of the occurrence of certain concepts across the supertexts; the comprehensiveness of a frame (i.e., th.