Overview

This book offers a ground-breaking analysis of how women's movements have been remaking citizenship in multicultural Europe. Presenting the findings of a large scale, multi-disciplinary cross-national feminist research project, FEMCIT, it develops an expanded, multi-dimensional understanding of citizenship as practice and experience.

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Author:   B. Halsaa ,  S. Roseneil ,  Sevil Sümer
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.500kg
ISBN:  

9780230276284

ISBN 10:   0230276288
Pages:   277
Publication Date:   21 August 2012
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Remaking Citizenship in Multicultural Europe: Introduction; S.Roseneil, B.Halsaa, & S.Sümer Rethinking Citizenship in Multicultural Europe: Critical Encounters with Feminist, Multicultural and Transnational Citizenship; S.Strasser Remaking Intimate Citizenship in Multicultural Europe: Experiences Outside the Conventional Family; S.Roseneil, I.Crowhurst, T.Hellesund, A.C. Santos & M.Stoilova Remaking Economic Citizenship in Multicultural Europe: Women's Movement Claims and the 'Commodification of Elderly Care'; N.Le Feuvre, R.Ervik, A.Krajewska & M.Metso Remaking Social Citizenship in Multicultural Europe: Women's Movements' Agency in Childcare Politics and Policies; S.Bergman, H.Hašková, K.Pulkrábková, M.Rantalaiho, C.Valiente & Z.Uhde Remaking Bodily Citizenship in Multicultural Europe: The Struggle for Autonomy and Self-determination; J.Outshoorn, T.Kulawik, R.Dudová & A.Prata Remaking Political Citizenship in Multicultural Europe: Addressing Citizenship Deficitsin the Formal Political Representation System; M.Threlfall, L.Freidenvall, M.Fuszara & D.Dahlerup Remaking Citizenship from the Margins: Migrant and Minoritised Women's Organisations in Europe; M.Kennedy-Macfoy 'Citizenship is not a word I use': How Women's Movement Activists Understand Citizenship; L.Predelli, B.Halsaa & C.Thun Appendices Bibliography Index

Reviews

"""A coherent and cogent account of the complex and multi-faceted issues surrounding citizenship in a multicultural Europe."" - People, Place and Policy ""This edited volume successfully encapsulates the debates on various dimensions of citizenship in contemporary European society."" - Keerty Nakray, Jindal Global Law School, India"

A coherent and cogent account of the complex and multi-faceted issues surrounding citizenship in a multicultural Europe. - People, Place and Policy This edited volume successfully encapsulates the debates on various dimensions of citizenship in contemporary European society. - Keerty Nakray, Jindal Global Law School, India

Author Information

SOLVEIG BERGMAN Sociologist who is currently attached to the Centre for Gender Research at the University of Oslo ISABEL CROWHURST Lecturer in Sociology and Criminology at Kingston University, London, UK DRUDE DAHLERUP Professor of Political Science and leader of the Women in Politics Research Centre (WIP) at Stockholm University, Sweden RADKA DUDOVA Researcher in the Institute of Sociology of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic RUNE ERVIK Senior Researcher at the Stein Rokkan Centre for Social Studies, Uni Research, Bergen, Norway LENITA FREIDENVALL Senior Lecturer in Political Science at Stockholm University, Sweden MALGORZATA FUSZARA Professor at Warsaw University, Poland HANA HASKOVA Senior Researcher at the Institute of Sociology of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic and teaches at Charles University, Prague TONE HELLESUND University Librarian and Senior Researcher at the Stein Rokkan Centre for Social Studies, University of Bergen, Norway MADELEINE KENNEDY-MACFOY Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for Gender Research, University of Oslo, Norway ANNA KRAJEWSKA Sociologist and lawyer and Assistant Professor at the Institute of Applied Social Sciences, University of Warsaw, Poland TERESA KULAWIK Professor of Gender Studies at Södertörn University in Stockholm, Sweden NICKY LE FEUVRE Professor of Sociology at the Social Science Institute of the University of Lausanne, Switzerland LINE NYHAGEN PREDELLI Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Loughborough University, UK JOYCE OUTSHOORN Professor Emeritus of Women's Studies at the University of Leiden, The Netherlands ANA PRATA Assistant Professor in Sociology at California State University Northridge, USA KATERINA PULKRABKOVA Lecturer at Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic MINNA RANTALAIHO clinical child protection social worker in Salo, Finland ANA CRISTINA SANTOS Senior Researcher at the Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra, Portugal MARIYA STOILOVA Research Fellow at Birkbeck, University of London, UK SABINE STRASSER Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Vienna, Austria MONICA THRELFALL is Reader in European Politics at London Metropolitan University, UK CECILIE THUN PhD candidate in Political Science at the University of Oslo, Norway ZUZANA UHDE Junior Researcher at the Gender & Sociology department in the Institute of Sociology of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic CELIA VALIENTE Associate Professor of Sociology at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain

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