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Monday, March 10, 2008

Setting the agenda - Denise M Horn

Foreign funding for women's non-governmental organizations (NGOs) during democratic transition plays a crucial role in shaping values and attitudes within civil society. Concepts of feminism, gender equality and the role of women in democratic politics are affected by the discourse established by foreign funders. In this article, the role of US and Nordic gender politics are examined in the Estonian context using a feminist constructivist framework. I explore that the effects of neoliberal versus social-democratic gender policies and conclude that, while funding for women's NGOs serves to create a necessary discourse on women's equality, these policies may actually serve the funders' needs to gain geopolitical influence in the region.
From: International Feminist Journal of Politics, Vol. 10 no. 1 (2008)

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