%0 Journal Article
%A Alonso, Alba
%A Ciccia, Rossella
%A Lombardo, Emanuela
%T A Southern European model? Gender regime change in Italy and Spain
%D 2023
%@ 0277-5395
%U https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/73365
%X How do we understand differences in the gender regime of Southern European states? Our study challenges theidea of a common Southern European gender regime by studying evolution of policies against gender-basedviolence in Spain and Italy from the 1980s until today. This analysis shows that the two countries have takendifferent trajectories: while the Spanish gender regime is increasingly public-progressive, the Italian one remainspublic-conservative. The moment of transition to democracy is identified as a critical turning point that shapedthe nature of the two gender regimes. This article further develops and operationalizes Sylvia Walby’s theory ofgender regime by showing that change is crucially affected by the dynamics between actors defending pro-andanti-feminist projects in the polity and civil society domains.
%X How do we understand differences in the gender regime of Southern European states? Our study challenges theidea of a common Southern European gender regime by studying evolution of policies against gender-basedviolence in Spain and Italy from the 1980s until today. This analysis shows that the two countries have takendifferent trajectories: while the Spanish gender regime is increasingly public-progressive, the Italian one remainspublic-conservative. The moment of transition to democracy is identified as a critical turning point that shapedthe nature of the two gender regimes. This article further develops and operationalizes Sylvia Walby’s theory ofgender regime by showing that change is crucially affected by the dynamics between actors defending pro-andanti-feminist projects in the polity and civil society domains.
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