Gender, Citizenships and Subjectivities

Informationen zum Autor Kathleen Canning is associate professor of History and Womena s Studies at the University of Michigan. She is the author of Languages of Labor and Gender: Female Factory Work in Germany 1850--1914 (Cornell University Press! 1996) and is currently working on a new book! Embodied Citizenships: Gender and the Crisis of Nation in Weimar Germany. Sonya O. Rose is Professor of History! Sociology and Womena s Studies at the University of Michigan. She is the author of Limited Livelihoods: Gender and Class in Nineteenth Century England (University of California Press! 1992) and co--editor with Laura L. Frader! of Gender and Class in Modern Europe (Cornell University Press! 1996). She has recently completed work on a new book! Which Peoplea s War? National Identity and Citizenship in World War II Britain (forthcoming). Klappentext This volume explores the relationship of citizenship and gender across a range of regions! nations and historical time periods. At the heart of each case study is an exploration of how gender shaped citizenship as a claims-making activity! and how women! often aligned with immigrants and minorities! took a leading role in articulating these claims. Zusammenfassung Explores the relationship of citizenship and gender across a range of regions! nations and historical time periods. In this title! each case study is an exploration of how gender shaped citizenship as a claims-making activity! and how women! often aligned with immigrants and minorities! took a leading role in articulating these claims. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction: Gender! Citizenship and Subjectivity: Some Historical and Theoretical Considerations: Kathleen Canning and Sonya O. Rose. 2. Citizens and Scientists: Toward a Gendered History of Scientific Practice in Post--revolutionary France: Carol E. Harrison. 3. The Rhetorics of Slavery and Citizenship: Suffragist Discourse and Canoncial Texts in Britain! 1880--1914: Laura E. Nym Mayhall. 4. Imagining Female Citizenship in the a New Spaina : Gendering the Deomcratic Transition! 1975--1978: Pamela Beth Radcliff. 5. The Trial of the New Woman: Citizens--in--Training in the New Soviet Republic: Elizabeth A. Wood. 6. Enfranchised Selves: Women! Culture and Rights in Nineteenth--Century Bengal: Tanika Sarkar. 7. Citizenship as Non--Discrimination: Acceptance or Assimilationism? Political Logic and Emotional Investment in Campaigns for Aboriginal Rights in Australia! 1940--1970: Marilyn Lake. 8. Producing Citizens! Reproducing the a French Racea : Imimigration! Demography! and Pronatalism in Early Twentieth--Century France: Elisa A. Camiscioli. 9. Citizenship as Contingent National Belonging: Married Women and Foreigners in Twentieth--Century Switzerland: Brigitte Studer! translated by Kate Sturge. Notes on Contributors. Index. ...

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• Authors: Canning, Kathleen Canning, Kathleen (University of Michigan) Rose Canning, Kathleen Rose Canning, W. Canning, A. Ed Rose, A. Ed. Rose
• Assisted by: Kathleen Canning (Editor), Sonya Rose (Editor)
• Publisher: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.05.2002
• EAN: 9781405100267
• ISBN: 978-1-4051-0026-7
• No. of pages: 248
• Series: Studies in Gender History; Gender and History Special Issues
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy