Women, Citizenship and Difference

This text brings together a group of international scholars from various disciplines to rethink the idea of citizenship and its relation to gender, ethnicity, class and national status. It focuses on the dismantling of welfare states, the attack on civil society, the rise in state terror and the gro [...]
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This text brings together a group of international scholars from various disciplines to rethink the idea of citizenship and its relation to gender, ethnicity, class and national status. It focuses on the dismantling of welfare states, the attack on civil society, the rise in state terror and the growth of religious and cultural fundamentalisms. The contributors show how the ambivalence of state sovereignty in the face of multi-national capitalism and the absence of structures of political accountability are complicit in the definitions of gendered citizenship. Against these, women's communal mobilization and political activism are considered in terms of their power effects and political potentialities. The book illustrates the need for women to negotiate and transcend difference and to find means for creating alliances across differences.