Femocrat

Marian Sawer

doi:10.1002/9781118663219.wbegss047

Femocrat

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The term femocrat was invented in Australia as a derogatory term to describe feminists entering women's policy positions in government. Subsequently it has been used more neutrally to describe feminists in government, whether in women's policy agencies or elsewhere, and whether at national, subnational, or transnational levels of governance. There is now a significant comparative literature on state feminism and continuing scholarly debate over whether the institutionalising of feminism weakens autonomous women's movements or whether femocrats should be conceptualized as women's movement actors in their own right.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Gender and Sexuality Studies
Editors	Nancy A. Naples
Place of Publication	Chicester, United Kingdom
Publisher	John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
Volume	5
ISBN (Print)	9781118663219
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118663219.wbegss047
Publication status	Published - 2016

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