Gender and Citizenship - In Historical and Transnational Perspective

With gender as its central focus, this book offers a transnational, multi-faceted understanding of citizenship as legislated, imagined, and exercised since the late eighteenth century. Framed around three crosscutting themes - agency, space and borders - leading scholars demonstrate what historians can bring to the study of citizenship and its evolving relationship with the theory and practice of democracy, and how we can make the concept of citizenship operational for studying past societies and cultures. The essays examine the past interactions of women and men with public authorities, their participation in civic life within various kinds of polities and the meanings they attached to their actions. In analyzing the way gender operated both to promote and to inhibit civic consciousness, action, and practice, this book advances our knowledge about the history of citizenship and the evolution of the modern state.>

Product details

• Authors: Anne Epstein, Rachel Fuchs, Rachel G. Fuchs
• Assisted by: Anne Epstein (Editor), Rachel G. Fuchs (Editor)
• Publisher: Macmillan
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.12.2016
• EAN: 9781137497741
• ISBN: 978-1-137-49774-1
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 158 mm x 235 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Gender and History; Gender and History
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; B, Gender Studies, Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civics & Citizenship, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, Social Sciences, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Social and cultural history, Gender studies, gender groups, Civil rights & citizenship, Civics and citizenship