This handbook maps the expanding field of gender and EU Politics, giving an overview of the fundamentals and new directions of the sub-discipline, and serving as a reference book for (gender) scholars and students at different levels interested in the EU.

1. Whose Story is it Anyway? Studying European Integration with a Gender Lens PART 1: Gendering the EU: Theoretical Perspectives Thematic introduction 2. The EU as a Gender Equality Regime: A Core Research Concept 3. Europeanization 4. Social Constructivism 5. Feminist Institutionalism 6. Feminist Political Economy and its Explanatory Promise 7. EU, Men and Masculinities 8. The EU Approach to Intersectional Discrimination in Law PART 2: Gendering the EU Polity and Structures of Governance Thematic introduction 9. European Parliament 10. Gendering the Council System 11. Gender Equality and the European Commission 12. The European External Action Service 13. The Politics of Gender in the Field of European Agencies 14. The Court of Justice of the EU and Judicial Politics PART 3: Gendered Politics in the EU Thematic introduction 15. Enlargement 16. Gender and EU Citizenship 17. The Privilege of (Defining) Knowledge: Gender Differences in Political Knowledge across Europe 18. Civil Society 19. Party Politics PART 4: Gender Equality and EU Policies Thematic introduction 20. Social and Employment Policy 21. Economic and Monetary Union 22. Trade Policies 23. Development Policy 24. Gender and EU Climate Policy 25. Research Policy 26. Security and Defense Policy 27. Migration and Asylum Policy 28. Violence against Women and Gender-based Violence PART 5: A Gender Lens on Key Issues and Debates Thematic introduction 29. The Populist Challenge to Gender Equality 30. Economic Crisis and the Politics of Austerity 31. The Gender Story of Brexit: From Under-representation of Women to Marginalisation of Equality