ISBN:
9780521591546
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
Online-Ressource (232 p.)
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Paralleltitel:
Print version Gender and Citizenship : Politics and Agency in France, Britain and Denmark
DDC:
305.42/094
Schlagwort(e):
Electronic books
Kurzfassung:
This book examines the links between women's social rights and democratic citizenship
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
Cover; GENDER AND CITIZENSHIP: Politics and Agency in France, Britainand Denmark; Title; Copyright; Contents; Tables and Figures; Preface; Abbreviations; Introduction: Feminist Rethinking of Citizenship; The New Paradigm about Gender in Modern Democracies; Key Notions: Agency, Power and Discourse; Methodological Reflections and Outline of the Book; CHAPTER 1: Towards a Gender-sensitive Framework of Citizenship; The Heritage from Marshall; The Male-breadwinner Model; The Inclusion of Gender in a Comparative Framework of Citizenship
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
The Vocabulary of Gender and Citizenship in France, Britain and DenmarkCHAPTER 2: Theories about Citizenship; The Classical Traditions: Liberalism, Republicanism and Socialism; Rethinking Democratic and Social Citizenship; The Framework of Social Rights; Visions of Democratic Citizenship; CHAPTER 3: Feminist Approaches to Citizenship; Key Notions in the Feminist Vocabulary of Citizenship; The Patriarchal Figure; The Maternalist-communitarian Model; The Pluralist Participatory Model; Social Constructivism and the Postmodern Challenge; Feminist Visions of Equality, Difference, and Social Change
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
CHAPTER 4: Gender and Citizenship: The French CaseAssumptions about Gender in the Republican Discourse; Democratic Citizenship and Women's Exclusion from Political Rights; The constraints and promises of republicanism; Feminist arguments about women's civil, political and social rights; The Politics of the Family and Women's Agency in the Interwar Period; Shifts in the Discourse and Politics of Women's Rights; Feminism and political institutions; The Transformation of Women's Democratic Citizenship; Strategies for political equality: 'democratie paritaire'
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
Changes in women's and men's political participation and identitiesReversion of the gender gap from right to left; The meaning of politics: differences in women's and men's conception of politics; Conclusion: Promises and Constraints on Equal Citizenship; CHAPTER 5: Gender and Citizenship: The British Case; Assumptions about Gender in Liberal Discourse; New Liberalism, Democratic Citizenship and Family Politics; The vocabulary of citizenship and women's suffrage; Women's agency and the formation of the welfare state; Feminism and the campaign for family policy
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
The Male-breadwinner Norm in the Postwar British Welfare StateUniversalism and married women's economic dependency; Shifts and Continuity in the Gender Model; Rights and obligations in the discourse of Thatcherism; The Transformation of Women's Democratic Citizenship; Feminism and political institutions; New Labour, the family and the interests of women; Conclusion: Towards a New Paradigm of State- Family Relations?; CHAPTER 6: Gender and Citizenship: The Danish Case; Assumptions about Gender in Danish Political Culture; Democratic Citizenship, Social Rights and Women's Agency
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
Women's campaigns for civil, political and social rights
Anmerkung:
Description based upon print version of record
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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