Women's Movements Facing the Reconfigured State

Klappentext Examines the changing relationship between women??'s movements and states in Western Europe and North America. Zusammenfassung Examines how women's movements have contributed and responded to changes in state powers and policy responsibility in North America and Western Europe. The scholars contributing chapters to this volume identify changes in women's movements that include a greater engagement with the state! specific policy-making ventures and challenges to national governments. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. When power relocates: interactive changes in women's movements and states Lee Ann Banaszak, Karen Beckwith and Dieter Rucht; 2. The feminist movement and the reconfigured state in Spain (1970s-2000) Celia Valiente; 3. The women's movement, the left, and the state: continuities and changes in the Italian case Donatella della Porta; 4. Comparing two movements for gender parity: France and Spain Jane Jenson and Celia Valiente; 5. Refuge in reconfigured states: shelter movements in the United States, Britain, and Sweden R. Amy Elman; 6. Shifting states: women's constitutional organizing across time and space Alexandra Dobrowolsky; 7. The women's movement policy successes and the constraints of state reconfiguration: abortion and equal pay in differing eras Lee Ann Banaszak; 8. The gendering ways of states: women's representation and state reconfiguration in France, Great Britain, and the United States Karen Beckwith; 9. 'Re-dividing citizens' - divided feminisms: the reconfigured US state and women's citizenship Mary Fainsod Katzenstein; 10. Cultural continuity and structural change: the logic of adaptation by radical, liberal, and socialist feminists to state reconfiguration Carol McClung Mueller and John D. McCarthy; 11. Interactions between social movements and states in a comparative perspective Dieter Rucht; 12. Restating the woman question: women's movements and state restructuring David S. Meyer.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Lee Ann Banaszak, Karen Beckwith, et al
• Collaboration: Lee Ann Banaszak (Editeur), Banaszak Lee Ann (Editeur), Karen Beckwith (Editeur), Dieter Rucht (Editeur), Rucht Dieter (Editeur)
• Edition: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Broché
• Sortie: 03.03.2003
• EAN: 9780521012195
• ISBN: 978-0-521-01219-5
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 230 mm x 20 mm
• Catégories: Littérature spécialisée; Sciences sociales, droit, économie > Sociologie > Théories sociologiques; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Women in Politics, Politics & government, Political Economy, Politics and government, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women and girls