The Limits Of Gendered Citizenship

Author : Elżbieta H. Oleksy
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136830006
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Limits of Gendered Citizenship written by Elżbieta H. Oleksy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011-02 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection responds to the need to re-evaluate the very important concept of citizenship in light of recent feminist debates. In contrast to the dominant universalizing concepts of citizenship, the volume argues that citizenship should be theorized on many different levels and in reference to diverse public and private contexts and experiences. The book seeks to demonstrate that the concept of citizenship needs to be understood from a gendered intersectional perspective and argues that, though it is often constructed in a universal way, it is not possible to interpret and indeed understand citizenship without situating it within a specific political, legal, cultural, social, and historical context.

Author : Natasha Behl
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190949449
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gendered Citizenship written by Natasha Behl and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-07-03 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It has been shown time and again that even though all citizens may be accorded equal standing in the constitution of a liberal democracy, such a legal provision hardly guarantees state protections against discrimination and political exclusion. More specifically, why do we find pervasive gender-based discrimination, exclusion, and violence in India when the Indian Constitution supports an inclusive democracy committed to gender and caste equality? In Gendered Citizenship, Natasha Behl offers an examination of Indian citizenship that weaves together an analysis of sexual violence law with an in-depth ethnography of the Sikh community to explore the contradictory nature of Indian democracy--which gravely affects its institutions and puts its citizens at risk. Through a situated analysis of citizenship, Behl upends longstanding academic assumptions about democracy, citizenship, religion, and gender. This analysis reveals that religious spaces and practices can be sites for renegotiating democratic participation, but also uncovers how some women engage in religious community in unexpected ways to link gender equality and religious freedom as shared goals. Gendered Citizenship is a groundbreaking inquiry that explains why the promise of democratic equality remains unrealized, and identifies potential spaces and practices that can create more egalitarian relations.

Author : Melissa Feinberg
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN 13 : 0822971038
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Elusive Equality written by Melissa Feinberg and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 2006-04-30 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Czechoslovakia became independent in 1918, Czechs embraced democracy, which they saw as particularly suited to their national interests. Politicians enthusiastically supported a constitution that proclaimed all citizens, women as well as men, legally equal. But they soon found themselves split over how to implement this pledge. Some believed democracy required extensive egalitarian legislation. Others contended that any commitment to equality had to bow before other social interests, such as preserving the traditional family. On the eve of World War II, Czech leaders jettisoned the young republic for an "authoritarian democracy" that firmly placed their nation, and not the individual citizen, at the center of politics. In 1948, they turned to a Communist-led "people's democracy," which also devalued individual rights. By examining specific policy issues, including marriage and family law, civil service regulations, citizenship law, and abortion statutes, Elusive Equality demonstrates the relationship between Czechs' ideas about gender roles and their attitudes toward democracy. Gradually, many Czechs became convinced that protecting a traditionally gendered family ideal was more important to their national survival than adhering to constitutionally prescribed standards of equal citizenship. Through extensive original research, Melissa Feinberg assembles a compelling account of how early Czech progress in women's rights, tied to democratic reforms, eventually lost momentum in the face of political transformations and the separation of state and domestic issues. Moreover, Feinberg presents a prism through which our understanding of twentieth-century democracy is deepened, and a cautionary tale for all those who want to make democratic governments work.

Author : Ruth Rubio-Marin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316827585
Total Pages : 405 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Global Gender Constitutionalism and Women's Citizenship written by Ruth Rubio-Marin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-10-06 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Constitutions around the world have overwhelmingly been the creation of men, but this book asks how far constitutions have affirmed the equal citizenship status of women or failed to do so. Using a wealth of examples from around the world, Ruth Rubio-Marín considers constitutionalism from its inception to the present day and places current debates in their vital historical context. Rubio-Marín adopts an inclusive concept of gender and sexuality, and discusses the constitutional gender order as it has been shaped by debates such those around same-sex marriage and the rights of trans persons. Covering a wide range of themes, from reproductive rights to political gender quotas and violence against women, this book offers a comprehensive feminist account of constitutional law. Truly international in scope and ambitious in subject matter, this is an invaluable resource for students and scholars working on gender within multiple disciplines.

Author : Elżbieta H. Oleksy
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136829997
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Limits of Gendered Citizenship written by Elżbieta H. Oleksy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011-02-01 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The underlying theme of this edited collection is gendered citizenship, as well as the challenges and limits that confront the gendering of citizenship. It critiques the notion of the genderless nation-state citizen — in both analytical and policy terms and contexts — and necessarily engages with at least three major sets of contradictions or tensions: limitations on achieving gender equal or gender equitable citizenship; relations and differences between gender equality policy, diversity policy, and gender mainstreaming; and interplays of academic analyses of and practical interventions on gendered citizenship. Contributors from diverse scientific disciplines and academic backgrounds aim to provide a better understanding of the challenges that societies within Europe and elsewhere face vis-à-vis diversity, regionalism, transnationalism, and migration.

Author : Brita Ytre-Arne
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137517654
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gendered Citizenship and the Politics of Representation written by Brita Ytre-Arne and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-08-26 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book sheds new light on gender-based inequalities in a globalized world. Interdisciplinary in scope, it reveals new avenues of research on gendered citizenship, analysing the possibilities and pitfalls of being represented and of representing someone. Drawing on contexts both historical and contemporary, it queries what it means to have access to representation, which power structures regulate and produce representation, and who counts as a citizen. Situating its arguments in the global struggle for hegemony, it answers such thought-provoking questions as whether one can represent someone or be represented without recourse to citizenship and, conversely, whether it is possible to be a citizen if one does not have access to representation. This engaging edited collection will appeal to students and scholars of sociology, social anthropology, history, media studies, political science, literature, gender studies and cultural studies.div div>

Author : Kari Melby
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 9781847424655
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gender Equality and Welfare Politics in Scandinavia written by Kari Melby and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the meanings of gender that underpin policies in the Scandinavian welfare states, historically and today, and raises the question whether the hallmark of the Scandinavian welfare model is a special combination of gender equality and gender differentiation.

Author : Linda K. Kerber
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0809073846
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book No Constitutional Right to Be Ladies written by Linda K. Kerber and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1999-09 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this landmark book, the historian Linda K. Kerber opens up this important and neglected subject for the first time. She begins during the Revolution, when married women did not have the same obligation as their husbands to be "patriots," and ends in the present, when men and women still have different obligations to serve in the armed forces.

Author : Feminist Review Collective
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 0415161746
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Citizenship written by Feminist Review Collective and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1998-02 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 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 : Bishnupriya Dutt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789352871971
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gendered Citizenship written by Bishnupriya Dutt and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: