ABSTRACT
Studies of the EU have devoted increasing attention to the role of identity, community and legitimacy as well as to the challenge European integration poses to the principle of state sovereignty. Yet, these studies have rarely investigated the gender dimensions of these questions. On the one hand, this is hardly surprising: the disciplines of IR and European integration studies have been slow to take on board feminist scholarship and the interstate focus of these disciplines is one which, certainly in its neorealist and neoliberal formulations, privileges the analysis of the relationship between governments and the EU at the expense of groups based on non-state identity such as gender.
