Gender and Citizenship: Politics and Agency in France, Britain and Denmark
Cambridge University Press
Edition: Illustrated, 9/25/2000
EAN 9780521591546, ISBN10: 0521591546
Hardcover, 232 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.4 cm
Language: English
Originally published in English
Feminist analysis shows that the prevailing concepts of citizenship often assume a male citizen. How, then, does this affect the agency and participation of women in modern democracies? This insightful book, first published in 2000, presents a systematic comparison of the links between women's social rights and democratic citizenship in three different citizenship models: republican citizenship in France, liberal citizenship in Britain, and social citizenship in Denmark. Birte Siim argues that France still suffers from the contradictions of pro-natalist policy, and that Britain is only just starting to re-conceptualise the male-breadwinner model that is still a dominant feature. In her examination of the dual-breadwinner model in Denmark, Siim presents research about Scandinavian social policy and makes an important and timely contribution to debates in political sociology, social policy and gender studies.
Introduction
feminist rethinking of citizenship
1. Towards a gender sensitive framework of citizenship
2. Theories about citizenship
3. Feminist approaches to citizenship
4. Gender and citizenship
the French case
5. Gender and citizenship
the British case
6. Gender and citizenship
the Danish case
Conclusion
towards a contextualised feminist theory of citizenship.