Women And Citizenship

by Friedman, Marilyn

• ISBN13: 9780195175349
• ISBN10: 0195175344
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-10-27
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

The notion of citizenship is complex; it can be at once an identity; a set of rights, privileges, and responsibilities; an elevated and exclusionary status, a relationship between individual and state, and more. In recent decades citizenship has attracted interdisciplinary attention,particularly with the transnational growth of Western capitalism. Yet citizenship's relationship to gender has gone relatively unexplored--despite the globally pervasive denial of citizenship to women, historically and in many places, ongoing today. This highly interdisciplinary volume explores the political and cultural dimensions of citizenship and their relevance to women and gender. Containing essays by a well-known group of scholars, including Iris Marion Young, Alison Jaggar, Martha Nussbaum, and Sandra Bartky, this book examines theconceptual issues and strategies at play in the feminist quest to give women full citizenship status. The contributors take a fresh look at the issues, going beyond conventional critiques, and examine problems in the political and social arrangements, practices, and conditions that diminish women'scitizenship in various parts of the world.

Author Biography

Marilyn Friedman is Professor of Philosophy at Washington University and author of Autonomy, Gender, Politics (OUP 2002).

Table of Contents

Contributors	ix
Introduction	3	(12)
Marilyn Friedman
Part I. Citizenship, Government, and Law
The Logic of Masculinist Protection: Reflections on the Current Security State	15	(20)
Iris Marion Young
French Universalism in the Nineties	35	(17)
Joan Wallach Scott
Battered Women, Intimidation, and the Law	52	(15)
Sandra Bartky