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1 online resource (ix, 220 pages) : illustrations |
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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 |
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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 |
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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' |
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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 |
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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 |
| Summary |
Feminist 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-203) and index |
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English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Women and democracy -- Europe
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Women's rights -- Europe
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Feminism -- Political aspects -- Europe
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Feminism & Feminist Theory.
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Feminism -- Political aspects
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Women and democracy
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Women's rights
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Sekseverschillen.
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Burgerschap.
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Feminisme.
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Féminisme -- Aspect politique -- France -- Etudes comparatives.
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Féminisme -- Aspect politique -- Grande-Bretagne -- Etudes comparatives.
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Féminisme -- Aspect politique -- Danemark -- Etudes comparatives.
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Citoyenneté -- France -- Etudes comparatives.
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Citoyenneté -- Grande-Bretagne -- Etudes comparatives.
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Citoyenneté -- Danemark -- Etudes comparatives.
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Europe
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Electronic book
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| LC no. |
00037874 |
| ISBN |
9781139126663 |
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1139126660 |
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9781139106672 |
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1139106678 |
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1107192161 |
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9781107192164 |
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1283528843 |
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9781283528849 |
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9786613841292 |
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6613841293 |
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1139113836 |
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9781139113830 |
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1139111647 |
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9781139111645 |
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1139116002 |
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9781139116008 |
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