Pauline Cullen is an Associate Professor in Sociology and Politics in the Department of Sociology, Maynooth University, National University of Ireland. Her work examines civil society mobilization on social justice and gender equality at national and European Union level, women’s movements and feminist analysis of politics and policy. Her work was been published in the Journal of Civil Society, Social Movement Studies, Gender Work & Organization, Politics & Gender; Policy and Society; Media, Culture & Society and European Politics and Society. She is co-editor of Producing Knowledge Reproducing Gender in Contemporary Ireland University College Dublin and University of Chicago Press.