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Author: Pnina Werbner
Publisher: Zed Books
Published: 1999-06
Total Pages: 296
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKProminent scholars from various disciplines rethink the idea of citizenship and its relation to gender, ethnicity, class and national status in this collection which focuses on the current dismantling of welfare states, and the rise in state terror.
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Published: 1996
Total Pages: 24
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Gisela Bock
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2005-09-23
Total Pages: 398
ISBN-13: 1134895755
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHistorically, as well as more recently, women's emancipation has been seen in two ways: sometimes as the `right to be equal' and sometimes as the `right to be different'. These views have often overlapped and interacted: in a variety of guises they have played an important role in both the development of ideas about women and feminism, and the works of political thinkers by no means primarily concerned with women's liberation. The chapters of this book deal primarily with the meaning and use of these two concepts in the context of gender relations (past and present), but also draw attention to their place in the understanding and analysis of other human relationships.
Author: St. Louis Marilyn Friedman Professor of Philosophy Washington University
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2005-09-16
Total Pages: 234
ISBN-13: 0198039077
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe notion of citizenship is complex; it can be at once an identity; a set of rights, privileges, and responsibilities; an elevated and exclusionary status, a relationship between individual and state, and more. In recent decades citizenship has attracted interdisciplinary attention, particularly with the transnational growth of Western capitalism. Yet citizenship's relationship to gender has gone relatively unexplored--despite the globally pervasive denial of citizenship to women, historically and in many places, ongoing today. This highly interdisciplinary volume explores the political and cultural dimensions of citizenship and their relevance to women and gender. Containing essays by a well-known group of scholars, including Iris Marion Young, Alison Jaggar, Martha Nussbaum, and Sandra Bartky, this book examines the conceptual issues and strategies at play in the feminist quest to give women full citizenship status. The contributors take a fresh look at the issues, going beyond conventional critiques, and examine problems in the political and social arrangements, practices, and conditions that diminish women's citizenship in various parts of the world.
Author: Joyce P. Kaufman
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 0739112031
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWomen, the State, and War looks at the intersection of gender, citizenship, and nationalism; marriage, intermarriage, and how states gender that relationship; and the ways in which women are used as symbols to reinforce or further nationalistic goals. Women have long struggled with issues of citizenship, identity, and the challenge of being recognized as equal members of the community. Governments use feminine imagery (e.g., mother country) to create a national identity, while simultaneously minimizing the role that women play as productive contributors to the society. Authors Joyce P. Kaufman and Kristen P. Williams examine the relationship of government and women in four different countries: the United States, Israel, the former Yugoslavia, and Northern Ireland. In each case, numerous similarities appear: conflict plays a significant role in the definition of citizenship for women; women's movements have worked in contradiction to the state; and citizenship and marriage are gendered undertakings.
Author: Birte Siim
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2000-09-07
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9780521598439
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFeminist analysis shows that the prevailing concepts of citizenship often assume a male citizen. How, then, does this affect the agency and participation of women in modern democracies? This insightful book, first published in 2000, presents a systematic comparison of the links between women's social rights and democratic citizenship in three different citizenship models: republican citizenship in France, liberal citizenship in Britain, and social citizenship in Denmark. Birte Siim argues that France still suffers from the contradictions of pro-natalist policy, and that Britain is only just starting to re-conceptualise the male-breadwinner model that is still a dominant feature. In her examination of the dual-breadwinner model in Denmark, Siim presents research about Scandinavian social policy and makes an important and timely contribution to debates in political sociology, social policy and gender studies.
Author: Eva Maria Hinterhuber
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
Published: 2024-01-30
Total Pages: 141
ISBN-13: 2832543936
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe year 1918 was significant in many ways, seeing the end of World War 1. At the same time, the impact and transformational effects of this event enabled civil society activists and politically institutionalised actors in European countries to pick up the threads of democratic social movements and parliamentary aspirations, and make use of “political opportunity structures” to obtain citizen rights for larger parts of the population. One result of this process – albeit with a difference between European states – was that more groups in society gained suffrage. Amongst those were large sections of the working class and women. While the vote was won for some new social groups in European societies, others were still excluded. After one centennium of struggle for political participation, we would like to discuss specific problems of politics of belonging. The question concerning the full recognition of citizen rights was and continually is connected to ideas of a specific membership of a nation state, a fact that denotes the particular problem of membership and non-membership and of inside and outside. This Research Topic will take account of this special field of tension of democratisation – e.g. inclusion through exclusion – from a perspective of social history, political science, gender studies and intersectionality approaches. This analytical foil shall be used to examine the relationship between state or government action and civil society, as well as the reproduction of social and political inequality despite increasing democratisation movements.
Author: Feminist Review Collective
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 1998-02
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 0415161746
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis topic is fast becoming a major issue of debate among a wide cross-section of disciplines. Citizenship brings together global perspectives on issues of citizenship in particular regional and national contexts. Papers include- - Women, Citizenship and Difference - Citizenship- Towards a Feminist Synthesis - The Public/Private- The Imagined Boundary in the Imagined Nation/State/Community - Enabling Citizenship- Gender, Disability and Citizenship in Australia - The Limits of Europeaness- Immigrant Women in Fortress Europe - Negotiating Citizenship- the case of Foreign Domestic Workers in Canada - Womens Publics and the Search for New Democracies. Now in its 20th year, Feminist Review is an internationally acclaimed journal that explores the breadth of contemporary feminism, covering such areas as feminist theory, race, class and sexuality, cultural studies, black and third world feminism, poetry and politics.
Author: Anupama Roy
Publisher: Orient Blackswan
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9788125027973
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAdopting a historical conceptual approach, this book examines the gendering of citizenship. It argues that through successive historical periods, `becoming a citizen has involved a gradual extension of the status, to more and more persons and groups, in particular, women, which resulted in a more inclusive and egalitarian structure. But, the promise of equal membership in the politcal community masks the exclusionary framework that defines citizenship as found in caste hierarchies, gender differences, and divides between religious communities based on majority and minority status. Engaging with contemporary debates on citizenship that place themselves within the framework of multiculturalism and world citizenship this work asserts the need to redefine the notion of community by focussing on citizenship as a measure of activity and practice, and by exposing the subtleties of role definition of women implicit in community norms.
Author: Marquis de Condorcet
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
Published: 2020-07-31
Total Pages: 15
ISBN-13: 152879110X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“On the Admission of Women to the Rights of Citizenship” is a 1789 essay by French philosopher Nicolas de Condorcet. Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas de Caritat, Marquis of Condorcet (1743–1794), more commonly known as Nicolas de Condorcet, was a French mathematician and philosopher who espoused equal rights people of all genders and races, a liberal economy, free public instruction, and the importance of a constitutional government. Said to have been the very embodiment of the ideals of the Age of Enlightenment, Condorcet died in prison as a result of his attempting to escape French Revolutionary authorities. Within this essay, he argues that, according to the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen, rights are universal; and if that is indeed true, then they should apply to all adults—women included. A fascinating example of early feminist literature, “On the Admission of Women to the Rights of Citizenship” will greatly appeal to those with an interest in the history of feminism and its most notable proponents. Read & Co. Great Essays is proudly republishing this classic essay now in a new edition complete with a specially-commissioned new biography of the author.
