Civil Society and Gender Justice : : Historical and Comparative Perspectives / / ed. by Karen Hagemann, Sonya Michel, Gunilla Budde.

Civil society and civic engagement have increasingly become topics of discussion at the national and international level. The editors of this volume ask, does the concept of “civil society” include gender equality and gender justice? Or, to frame the question differently, is civil society a feminist...

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Place / Publishing House:New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2008]
©2008
Year of Publication:2008
Language:English
Series:Studies on Civil Society ; 4
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Physical Description:1 online resource (320 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  • EDITORS’ PREFACE
  • INTRODUCTION: GENDERING CIVIL SOCIETY
  • RETHINKING CIVIL SOCIETY AND GENDER JUSTICE
  • Chapter 1 CIVIL SOCIETY GENDERED: RETHINKING THEORIES AND PRACTICES
  • Chapter 2 DILEMMAS OF GENDER JUSTICE GENDERING EQUITY, JUSTICE, AND RECOGNITION
  • EARLY CIVIL SOCIETIES IN THEORY AND PRACTICE
  • Chapter 3 THE PROGRESS OF “CIVILIZATION” WOMEN, GENDER, AND ENLIGHTENED PERSPECTIVES ON CIVIL SOCIETY IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY BRITAIN
  • Chapter 4 THE CITY AND THE CITOYENNE ASSOCIATIONAL CULTURE AND FEMALE CIVIC VIRTUES IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY GERMAN
  • Chapter 5 FEMINISTS CAMPAIGNS IN “PUBLIC SPACE” CIVIL SOCIETY, GENDER JUSTICE, AND THE HISTORY OF EUROPEAN FEMINISM
  • CIVIL SOCIETY AND THE FAMILY
  • Chapter 6 THE FAMILY—A CORE INSTITUTION OF CIVIL SOCIETY A PERSPECTIVE ON THE MIDDLE CLASSES IN IMPERIAL GERMANY
  • Chapter 7 VEILED ASSOCIATIONS THE MUSLIM MIDDLE CLASS, THE FAMILY, AND THE COLONIAL STATE IN NINETEENTHAND TWENTIETH-CENTURY INDIA1
  • Chapter 8 “ONLY CONNECT” FAMILY, GENDER, AND CIVIL SOCIETY IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY EUROPE AND NORTH AMERICA
  • CIVIL SOCIETY, GENDERED PROTEST, AND NONGOVERNMENTAL MOVEMENTS
  • Chapter 9 NECESSARY CONFRONTATIONS GENDER, CIVIL SOCIETY, AND THE POLITICS OF FOOD IN EIGHTEENTH- TO TWENTIETH-CENTURY GERMANY
  • Chapter 10 “GOOD” VS. “MILITANT” CITIZENS MASCULINITY, CLASS PROTEST, AND THE “CIVIL” PUBLIC IN BRITAIN BETWEEN 1867 AND 1939
  • Chapter 11 CIVIL SOCIETY IN A NEW KEY? FEMINIST AND ALTERNATIVE GROUPS IN 1960S–1970S WEST GERMANY
  • Chapter 12 CIVIL SOCIETY-BY-DESIGN EMERGING CAPITALISM, ESSENTIALIST FEMINISM, AND WOMEN’S NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS IN POSTSOCIALIST EASTERN EUROPE
  • CIVIL SOCIETY, THE STATE, AND CITIZENSHIP
  • Chapter 13 THE RISE OF WELFARE STATES AND THE REGENDERING OF CIVIL SOCIETY THE CASE OF THE UNITED STATES
  • Chapter 14 FELLOW FEELING A TRANSNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE ON CONCEPTIONS OF CIVIL SOCIETY AND CITIZENSHIP IN “WHITE MEN’S COUNTRIES,” 1890–1910
  • Chapter 15 “BRINGING THE STATE BACK IN” CIVIL SOCIETY, WOMEN’S MOVEMENTS, AND THE STATE
  • CIVIL SOCIETY, PUBLIC SPACE, AND GENDER JUSTICE: A SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • CONTRIBUTORS
  • INDEX