Women, citizenship and difference / edited by Nira Yuval-Davis and Pnina Werbner.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Werbner, Pnina.

Yuval-Davis, Nira.

Series:

Postcolonial encounters

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Citizenship.

Women's rights.

Physical Description:

xii, 271 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Zed ; New York : Distributed in the USA exclusively by St. Martin's Press, 1999.

Summary:

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 fundamentalisms. The contributors demonstrate how the growing ambivalence of state sovereignty in the face of multinational capitalism and the absence of political accountability structures are complicit in the definitions of gendered citizenship. Against these, women's communal mobilization and political activisms 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.

Contents:

1. Introduction: Women and the New Discourse of Citizenship / Pnina Werbner, Nira Yuval-Davis 1

Part 1 Dialogical Citizenships 39

2. Citizenship Revisited / Alison Assiter 41

3. Right-Wing 'Feminism': a Challenge to Feminism as an Emancipatory Movement / Birgit Rommelspacher 54

4. 'It Works Both Ways': Belonging and Social Participation among Women with Disabilities / Judith Monks 65

Part 2 Exclusionary Citizenships 85

5. Female Education and Citizenship in Afghanistan: a Turbulent Relationship / Niloufar Pourzand 87

6. Citizenship, Difference and Education: Reflections Inspired by the South African Transition / Elaine Unterbalter 100

7. Producing the Mothers of the Nation: Race, Class and Contemporary US Population Policies / Patricia Hill Collins 118

8. Constitutionally Excluded: Citizenship and (Some) Irish Women / Ronit Lentin 130

Part 3 Ambivalent Citizens: Migrants and Refugees 145

9. Feminism, Multiculturalism, Essentialism / Aleksandra Alund 147

10. Muslim and South Asian Women: Customary Law and Citizenship in Britain / Samia Bano 162

11. Embodied Rights: Gender Persecution, State Sovereignty and Refugees / Jacqueline Bhabha 178

12. Refugee Women in Serbia: Their Experiences of War, Nationalism and State Building / Maja Korac 192

Part 4 Feminist Citizenships in a Global Ecumene 205

13. Globalisation and the Gendered Politics of Citizenship / Jan Jindy Pettman 207

14. Political Motherhood and the Feminisation of Citizenship: Women's Activisms and the Transformation of the Public Sphere / Pnina Werbner 221

15. An Agenda of One's Own: The Tribulations of the Peruvian Feminist Movement / Virginia Vargas, Cecilia Olea 246.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1856496457

1856496465

OCLC:

40798903