International perspectives regarding gender equality have materialized in Galicia, the most northwestern region of Spain. This article examines how international and subnational factors have affected Galician nationalist feminists, rural women's associations and bureaucrats working in women's policy machineries. The article explains how these equality actors similarly base their activism on local and international themes, yet maintain different stances on the meaning of equality. I uncover how the subnational manifestation of women's policy machineries - themselves an international phenomenon - hastened diversity and even discontent among local equality actors. I conclude that subnational efforts at equality promotion do not always produce a bold version of feminism within local societies.
From: International Feminist Journal of Politics, Vol. 9 (3), September 2007, pp. 359-378
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