Introduction. «A critical practice of thinking otherwise»: Bacchi, gender and public policy analysis

Abstract

All too often the question «what’s gender got to do with it?» still arises with government officials, policy actors, elected politicians and of course in everyday conversations. As long as these formal actors –policy makers and politicians– continue to contain thinking and consideration of gender equality in the policy making process to more superficial notions of equality of opportunity and equal treatment, the dimensions of gendered relations and the complex interactions across policy domains will remain invisible and policy making, and the silences of assumed norms that shape policy «representations» will remain. If gender equality is considered to be a matter of primera To link to this article / Para enlazar con este artículo: https://doi.org/10.14198/fem.2020.35.01