In the Hands of Women: Paradigms of Citizenship (Perspectives on Democratic Practice)

Susan Buckingham (Editor) and Geraldine Lievesley (Editor)

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This book addresses how women experience or are denied citizenship from the perspective of a multi-disciplinary group of women academics and through the use of wide-ranging case studies. The case studies demonstrate both the diversity of women's lives and the commonalities of many of the problems they face. The book considers how politico-legal definitions of citizenship and the practices that these inform are often disengaged from women's lives or, indeed, are intended to envelop those lives in gender stereotypes. Each case-study considers how women challenge these normative assumptions and, through their own activities, create an empowered citizenship.
  • ISBN10 0719069106
  • ISBN13 9780719069109
  • Publish Date 31 August 2006
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 14 February 2012
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Manchester University Press
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 224
  • Language English