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 concept? Conversely, does
feminism need the concept of civil society? 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 instantiations of civil society, all the authors
nonetheless take seriously the potential inherent in civil society,
particularly as it comes to influence global politics. They demand,
however, an expansion of both the concept and project of civil
society in order to make its political opportunities available to
all.
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