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From Global to Grassroots represents a cutting-edge effort to assess a crucial area of state action for promoting gender equality: violence against women. Celeste Montoya crafts and conducts a powerful multi methods study of VAW policy in the European Union that enhances our understanding of women's movements and gender policy as they span the local, national, and transnational levels. Montoya's stellar analysis provides larger lessons as well about some of the major social questions of our day: democratic performance, intersectionality, multi-level governance, and policy effectiveness. As such, it will be of great use to a broad audience of scholars, teachers, activists and practitioners. --Amy G. Mazur, Professor of Political Science, Washington State University From Global to Grassroots addresses one of the most important policy issues in the contemporary world-an issue that quite literally is the product of feminist activism over the past half-century. Celeste Montoya provides a lucid account of the emergence of this policy terrain and a sophisticated overview of the intricate array of state and nonstate actors involved in efforts to devise policies to eliminate violence against women. --Mary Hawkesworth, Professor of Women's and Gender Studies, Rutgers University Montoya provides readers with one of the most thorough cross-national studies to yet emerge of transnational advocacy to combat violence against women... The book contributes rich theoretical insights that add to the knowledge of regional institutions (like the EU) and transnational activism. Montoya extends the conceptualization of differences between state responsiveness to violence against women and effectiveness in dealing with the protection, prosecution, and prevention of violence... Recommended. --CHOICE

<br> From Global to Grassroots represents a cutting-edge effort to assess a crucial area of state action for promoting gender equality: violence against women. Celeste Montoya crafts and conducts a powerful multi methods study of VAW policy in the European Union that enhances our understanding of women's movements and gender policy as they span the local, national, and transnational levels. Montoya's stellar analysis provides larger lessons as well about some of the major social questions of our day: democratic performance, intersectionality, multi-level governance, and policy effectiveness. As such, it will be of great use to a broad audience of scholars, teachers, activists and practitioners. - Amy G. Mazur, Professor of Political Science, Washington State University <br><p><br> From Global to Grassroots addresses one of the most important policy issues in the contemporary world-an issue that quite literally is the product of feminist activism over the past half-century. Celeste Montoya provides a lucid account of the emergence of this policy terrain and a sophisticated overview of the intricate array of state and nonstate actors involved in efforts to devise policies to eliminate violence against women. - Mary Hawkesworth, Professor of <br>Women's and Gender Studies, Rutgers University <br><p><br>

From Global to Grassroots represents a cutting-edge effort to assess a crucial area of state action for promoting gender equality: violence against women. Celeste Montoya crafts and conducts a powerful multi methods study of VAW policy in the European Union that enhances our understanding of women's movements and gender policy as they span the local, national, and transnational levels. Montoya's stellar analysis provides larger lessons as well about some of the major social questions of our day: democratic performance, intersectionality, multi-level governance, and policy effectiveness. As such, it will be of great use to a broad audience of scholars, teachers, activists and practitioners * Amy G. Mazur, Professor of Political Science, Washington State University *

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Celeste Montoya is Assistant Professor in the Women and Gender Studies Program at the University of Colorado-Boulder.

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