Gender in a Global/Local World Series

(Un)thinking Citizenship

Published 12 January 2005

This book brings new perspectives and insights about women's lived experience to the body of existing literature on citizenship. It stimulates debate on issues of citizenship and includes perspectives on poverty, HIV/AIDS, political representation and violence against women. While books with a feminist perspective on different aspects of politics such as rights, voting behaviour, representation, and policy-making have appeared, very few deal explicitly with theory. This book aims to make a contribution to theory building at the same time as incorporating empirical evidence. The text is written in an accessible style so that practitioners, students and politicians may find it useful. Scholars from different disciplines such as political science, law, philosophy, geography and gender studies as well as the voices of activists have been included. The book offers a view from the South, from a developing democracy that is to a large extent viewed as one of the great success stories of democratic transitions.