Remaking citizenship in multicultural Europe: women's movements, gender and diversity

This book offers a ground-breaking analysis of how women's movements have been remaking citizenship in multicultural Europe. Presenting the findings of a large scale, multi-disciplinary, cross-national feminist research project, FEMCIT, it develops an expanded, multi-dimensional understanding of citizenship aspractice and experience. .Remaking Citizenship. pays particular attention to processes of racialization and minoritization as they impact upon, and construct, citizenship and women's movements in contemporary Europe. The book develops answers to two vital questions - what difference have women's movements and feminism made to experiences and practices of citizenship, and how can we assess the state of citizenship in contemporary Europe from the perspective of women, particularly minoritized women?.This book will be appreciated by scholars and students of citizenship, social movements, race and ethnicity, and feminism and gender theory from a wide range of disciplines, including sociology, social policy, political science, history and anthropology. . INDICE: Remaking Citizenship in Multicultural Europe: Introduction; .B.Halsaa., .S.Roseneil .& .S.Sümer.Rethinking Citizenship in Multicultural Europe:Critical Encounters with Feminist, Multicultural and Transnational Citizenship; .S.Strasser.Remaking Intimate Citizenship in Multicultural Europe: Experiences Outside the Conventional Family; .S. Roseneil, I. Crowhurst, T. Hellesund,A. Santos and M. Stoilova.Remaking Economic Citizenship in Multicultural Europe: Women's Movement Claims and the 'Commodification of Elderly Care'; .N. Le Feuve, R. Ervik, A. Krajewska and M. Metso. .Remaking Social Citizenship in Multicultural Europe: Women's Movements' Agency in Childcare Politics and Policies; .S. Bergman, H. HaÅíkovÁ, K. PulkrÁbkovÁ, M. Rantalaiho, C. Valiente and Z. Uhde.Remaking Bodily Citizenship in Multicultural Europe: The Struggle for Autonomy and Self-determination;. J. Outshoorn, T. Kulawik, R. DudovÁ and A. Prata.Remaking Political Citizenship in Multicultural Europe: Addressing Citizenship Deficits in the Formal Political Representation System; .M. Threlfall, L.Freidenvall, M. Fuszara and D. Dahlerup.Remaking Citizenship from the Margins: Migrant and Minoritised Women's Organisations in Europe;. M. Kennedy-Macfoy.'Citizenship is not a word I use': How Women's Movement Activists Understand Citizenship;. L. Predelli, B. Halsaa and C. Thun.Appendices.Bibliography.Index.

• ISBN: 978-0-230-27628-4
• Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 272
• Fecha Publicación: 14/05/2012
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Desconocido