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Title Civil society and gender justice : historical and comparative perspectives / edited by Karen Hagemann, Sonya Michel, and Gunilla Budde
Published New York : Berghahn Books, 2008
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Description 1 online resource (xi, 324 pages)
Series European civil society ; v. 4
European civil society ; v. 4.
Contents Title page-Civil Society and Gender Justice; Contents; Acknowledgements; Editor's preface; Introduction; Rethinking Civil Society and Gender Justice; Chapter 1-Civil society gendered; Chapter 2-Dilemmas of Gender Justice; Early Civil Societies in Theory and Practice; Chapter 3-The progress of 'civilization'; Chapter 4-The city and the citoyenne; Chapter 5-Feminists campaigns in 'public space'; Civil society and the family; Chapter 6-The family-A core institution of civil society; Chapter 7-Veiled Associations; Chapter 8-'Only connect'
Civil Society, Gendered Protest, and Nongovernmental movementsChapter 9-Necessary Confrontations; Chapter 10-'Good' vs. 'Militant' citizens; Chapter 11-Civil society in a new key?; Chapter 12-Civil society-by-design; Civil society, the state, and citizenship; Chapter 13-The rise of welfare states and the regendering of civil society; Chapter 14-Fellow feeling; Chapter 15-'Bringing the state back in'; Civil society, public space, and gender justice:a selected bibliography; Cont
Summary This important volume offers both a revised gendered history of civil society and a program for making it more egalitarian in the future. An interdisciplinary group of internationally known authors investigates the relationship between public and private in the discourses and practices of civil societies; the significance of the family for the project of civil society; the relation between civil society, the state, and different forms of citizenship; and the complex connection between civil society, gendered forms of protest and nongovernmental movements. While often critical of historical ins
Notes Based on international conference held in Berlin, July 2004
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 302-308) and index
Notes English
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Subject Civil society -- History -- Congresses
Women's rights -- History -- Congresses
Feminist theory -- Congresses
Sexism -- Cross-cultural studies -- Congresses
Social justice -- Cross-cultural studies -- Congresses
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Essays.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Reference.
HISTORY -- General.
Civil society
Feminist theory
Sexism
Social justice
Women's rights
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
History
Form Electronic book
Author Hagemann, Karen, editor.
Michel, Sonya, 1942- editor.
Budde, Gunilla-Friederike, 1960- editor.
LC no. 2008026635
ISBN 9781845458577
1845458575
1282627279
9781282627277
9786612627279
6612627271