Citizenship: Feminist Perspectives
Title | Citizenship: Feminist Perspectives |
Publication Type | Book |
Year of Publication | 1997 |
Authors | Lister, Ruth |
Number of Pages | 184 |
Publisher | New York University Press |
City | New York |
Abstract | The competing pressures of globalization and immigration have forced Americans—as well as people from most other countries—to think long and hard about what it means to be a citizen. In this book, Lister argues for a new feminist notion of citizenship, one that can accommodate difference. Lister argues that citizenship has traditionally been a tool of social and political exclusion, inequality, and xenophobia. How, then, can it lend itself to an inclusive analysis and to politics able to accommodate difference? And how can it offer a solid foundation for progressive, nondiscriminatory policymaking? To pinpoint the important theoretical issues that these questions raise, Lister recasts traditional thinking about the concept of citizenship, exploring its political and policy implications for women in all their diversity. Themes of inclusion and exclusion, rights and participation, inequality and difference are thus brought to the fore in the development of a "woman-friendly" theory and axis of citizenship. |
URL | https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-1-349-26209-0 |
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