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Women, Citizenship and Difference

Women, Citizenship and Difference

Werbner, Pnina
Davis, Nira Yuval

Paperback

Series: Postcolonial Encounters

General Gender StudiesGeneral Political ScienceWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 1856496465
ISBN13: 9781856496469
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: Jun 1 1999
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.84 Width: 5.30 Depth: 8.47
Language: English

This book makes an important contribution towards an understanding of citizenship as mediated by other collective, historically determined identities: of gender, ethnicity, class and national status. It brings together a group of prominent international scholars from moral philosophy, law, political science and sociology to offer a major reconceptualization of the idea of citizenship.

Throughout, the book is concerned with the current dismantling of welfare states, the attack on civil society and the rise in state terror and religious and cultural findamentalisms. The contributors demonstrate how the growing ambivalence of state sovereignty in the face of multi-national capitalism and the absence of political accountability structures are complicit in the definitions of gendered citizenship. Against these, women's communal mobilization and political activism are considered in terms of their power effects and political potentialities; the book as a whole shows the need to negotiate and transcend difference and to find means for creating alliances across differences.

The most comprehensive, comparative statement on the present state of the gender and citizenship debate available, this book will be necessary reading for students and academics of nationalism, citizenship, human rights, globalization and women's studies.

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