The book analyses intersections between gender and diversity through cross-national studies of European public spheres. The approach confronts research on European democracy and the public sphere with gender and diversity research and reflections about European equality and diversity issues are based on new research from a large-scale EU project.

PART I: THEORETICAL APPROACHES Intersections of gender and diversity - a European Perspective; B.Siim European Public Spheres and intersectionality; M.Mokre & B.Siim PART II: COLLECTIVE ACTORS OF THE PUBLIC SPHERE Intersectionality and the Discourses of Women's Social Movement Organisations Across Europe; A.A.Lozano , A.A.Veinguer & N.Garcia-Gonzalez Gendered Identity Constructions in Political Discourse: the Cases of Denmark and Hungary; L.R.Agustin & R.Sato Gender, Populism and Politics of Belonging: Discourses of Right-wing Populist Parties in Denmark, Norway and Austria; S.Meet & B.Siim Multicultural Dialogues: Diversity, Gender and Immigration in the European Public Sphere; R.Sato Gender and Diversity in European Media; T.Flyger PART III: EU POLICIES AND TRANSNATIONAL MOBILISATION, DISCOURSES AND PRACTICES The EU's gender and Diversity Policies and the European Public Sphere; M.Mokre & A.Borchorst Transnational Collective Mobilisation: Challenges for Women's Movements in Europe; L.R.Agustin Collaborating on Combatting discrimination? Anti-racist and Gender Equality Organisations in Europe; H.P.Nielsen Women, Participation and the European Parliament; H.P.Nielsen & L.R.Agustin Concluding Remarks: Monika Mokre and Birte Siim: Intersectionality and the European Public Sphere

BIRTE SIIM is Professor, Department of Culture and Global Studies, Aalborg University and Director of the Feminist and Gender Research Centre (FREIA) at Aalborg University, Demark. 
MONIKA MOKRE is Research Fellow, Institute for Cultural Studies and History of Theatre, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria. She is also Chairwoman of European Institute for Progressive Cultural Policies (EIPCP).