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.
Table of Content
Introduction
1. Women and the experience of citizenship – Geraldine Lievesley
2. Gender, international law, and the emergence of environmental citizenship – Karen Morrow
3. Environmental action as a space for developing women’s citizenship – Susan Buckingham
4. A place for citizenship? Women, urban design and neighbourhood planning – Marion Roberts
5. Identity, gender and citizenship: women in Latin and Central America and Cuba – Geraldine Lievesley
6. Committees of soldiers mothers: mothers challenging the Russian state – Catherine Danks
7. Conclusions
About the author
Geraldine Lievesley is Senior Lecturer in Politics at Manchester Metropolitan University
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