Unpacking the Russian doll: gendered and intersectionalized categories in European gender equality policies

Both theoretically and normatively, the question of whether and how to generalize or specify gendered social actors in policy-making has been much debated. While some stress the need to specify and intersectionalize actors so that interfering power dynamics can be addressed, others highlight the dangers involved in any reification of social categories. This paper analyzes the actual gendered and intersectionalized category-making of social...