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An important contribution to the current literature on gender and
social politics, this book challenges mainstream thinking on
welfare states, citizenship, family, work, and social policy.
Contested Concepts in Gender and Social Politics analyses the
corresponding shifts in political discourse, and the changes in
socio-political configurations that mirror changing gender
relations.The discussion is both international and
interdisciplinary, and focuses on topics that include citizenship,
social exclusion and inclusion, care, social capital and
representation, amongst others. The contributors examine these
issues in relation to current policy debates and consider how they
are embedded in particular European intellectual traditions. They
also explore how feminist scholarship has engaged with these
issues, and assess how these contested concepts can improve
understanding both of the position of women and of gender relations
more broadly. This is the first major transnational attempt to
address the conceptual basis for current work in the field of
social policy and social politics from both a feminist and
genuinely comparative viewpoint. As such it will be invaluable to
undergraduate and graduate students of social policy, politics and
sociology.
An important contribution to the current literature on gender and
social politics, this book challenges mainstream thinking on
welfare states, citizenship, family, work, and social policy.
Contested Concepts in Gender and Social Politics analyses the
corresponding shifts in political discourse, and the changes in
socio-political configurations that mirror changing gender
relations.The discussion is both international and
interdisciplinary, and focuses on topics that include citizenship,
social exclusion and inclusion, care, social capital and
representation, amongst others. The contributors examine these
issues in relation to current policy debates and consider how they
are embedded in particular European intellectual traditions. They
also explore how feminist scholarship has engaged with these
issues, and assess how these contested concepts can improve
understanding both of the position of women and of gender relations
more broadly. This is the first major transnational attempt to
address the conceptual basis for current work in the field of
social policy and social politics from both a feminist and
genuinely comparative viewpoint. As such it will be invaluable to
undergraduate and graduate students of social policy, politics and
sociology.
This study looks comparatively and cross-nationally at the dynamic interplay between those fighting for a fairer division of economic resources and those struggling for recognition and respect of group differences. The book addresses key debates on the political gender of multiculturalism and identity politics with original empirical research. Written by prominent scholars across disciplinary and geographical borders, it transcends social movement studies by confronting issues of power and governance, authenticity, and boundary making.
Prominent scholars in gender studies and the critical studies of men consider herein how varied institutional settings and policy influence the development of new models of fatherhood, and determine choices. The authors provide new insights from different historical and societal perspectives into the studies of men as gendered subjects, including the role of transnational and global issues on the practices of fatherhood, and the emergence of men's movements in contesting and reimaging fatherhood.
Citizenship has come under intense discussion recently because of
threats to welfare and shifting immigration policies. The European
Union has opened transnational citizenship rights and fledgling
democracies throughout the world are struggling to establish their
own versions of citizenship. Extending Citizenship, Reconfiguring
States connects all these current discussions and places them in
historical perspective. The book presents a thematically unified
analysis of changing citizenship practices over two centuries_from
the eve of the French Revolution to contemporary China. Showing how
rights emerge with the appearance of new social groups and the
reconfiguration of states, the authors identify conditions under
which rights and citizenship expand as new groups develop within
consolidated states as well as how rights and citizenship emerge
within fragmented states with cross-cutting legal jurisdictions.
This study looks comparatively and cross-nationally at the dynamic interplay between those fighting for a fairer division of economic resources and those struggling for recognition and respect of group differences. The book addresses key debates on the political gender of multiculturalism and identity politics with original empirical research. Written by prominent scholars across disciplinary and geographical borders, it transcends social movement studies by confronting issues of power and governance, authenticity, and boundary making.
Prominent scholars in gender studies and the critical studies of men consider herein how varied institutional settings and policy influence the development of new models of fatherhood, and determine choices. The authors provide new insights from different historical and societal perspectives into the studies of men as gendered subjects, including the role of transnational and global issues on the practices of fatherhood, and the emergence of men's movements in contesting and reimaging fatherhood.
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