Resisting Citizenship: Feminist Essays on Politics, Community, and Democracy

by Ackelsberg; Martha A.

• ISBN13: 9780415935197
• ISBN10: 0415935199
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2009-10-30
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Combining her own field work and interviews with cutting edge research and theory on democracy and activism, Ackelsberg explores collective engagement in order to draw lessons and attempt to incorporate knowledge about current notions of democracy from those who engage in "non-traditional" participation.

Author Biography

Martha A. Ackelsberg is Five College Fortieth Anniversary Professor and William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor in the Department of Government and Program for the Study of Women and Gender at Smith College. Her research and teaching interests are in applied democratic theory, urban politics, and feminist theory.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction: From Resisting the Canon to Resisting Citizenship	p. 1
Rethinking Politics/Rethinking Community	p. 11
Women's Collaborative Activities and City Life: Politics and Policy	p. 13
Communities, Resistance, and Women's Activism: Reflections on Democratic Theory	p. 26
Terrains of Protest: Striking City Women	p. 39
Challenging Dichotomies: Dependency, Privacy, Identity, Power	p. 57
Dependency or Mutuality: A Feminist Perspective on Dilemmas of Welfare Policy	p. 59
Privacy, Publicity, and Power: A Feminist Rethinking of the Public-Private Distinction	p. 70
Gender, Resistance, and Citizenship: Women's Struggles with/in the State	p. 86
Rethinking Anarchism/Rethinking Power: A Contemporary Feminist Perspective	p. 101
Is Citizenship the Goal?	p. 115
Exclusion or Inclusion? The Ambiguities of Citizenship	p. 117
Broadening the Study of Women's Participation	p. 131
Women's Community Activism and the Rejection of "Politics": Some Dilemmas of Popular Democratic Movements	p. 145
Families, Care, and Citizenship: Notes toward a Feminist Approach	p. 165
Democracy and (In)Equality: Community Activism and Democracy in a Time of Retrenchment	p. 179
Notes	p. 196
Index	p. 263
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