Resisting Citizenship : Feminist Essays on Politics, Community, and Democracy.
Political participation in America-supposedly the world's strongest democracy-is startlingly low, and many of the civil rights and economic equity initiatives that were instituted in the 1960s and '70s have been abandoned, as significant proportions of the populace seem to believe that the...
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Taylor and Francis,
2013
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Resisting Citizenship: Feminist Essays on Politics, Community, and Democracy; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: From Resisting the Canon to Resisting Citizenship; Part I: Rethinking Politics/Rethinking Community; 1. Women's Collaborative Activities and City Life: Politics and Policy; 2. Communities, Resistance, and Women's Activism: Reflections on Democratic Theory; 3. Terrains of Protest: Striking City Women; Part II: Challenging Dichotomies: Dependency, Privacy, Identity, Power.
- 4. Dependency or Mutuality: A Feminist Perspective on Dilemmas of Welfare Policy5. Privacy, Publicity, and Power: A Feminist Rethinking of the Public- Private Distinction; 6. Gender, Resistance, and Citizenship: Women's Struggles With/In the State; 7. Rethinking Anarchism/Rethinking Power: A Contemporary Feminist Perspective; Part III: Is Citizenship the Goal?; 8. Exclusion or Inclusion? the Ambiguities of Citizenship; 9. Broadening the Study of Women's Participation; 10. Women's Community Activism and the Rejection of "Politics": Some Dilemmas of Popular Democratic Movements.
- 11. Families, Care, and Citizenship: Notes Toward a Feminist Approach12. Democracy and (In)equality: Community Activism and Democracy in a Time of Retrenchment; Notes; Index.
