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Feminist analysis shows that the prevailing concepts of citizenship often assume a male citizen. How, then, does this affect the agency and participation of women in modern democracies? This insightful book, first published in 2000, presents a systematic comparison of the links between women's social rights and democratic citizenship in three different citizenship models: republican citizenship in France, liberal citizenship in Britain, and social citizenship in Denmark. Birte Siim argues that France still suffers from the contradictions of pro-natalist policy, and that Britain is only just starting to re-conceptualise the male-breadwinner model that is still a dominant feature. In her examination of the dual-breadwinner model in Denmark, Siim presents research about Scandinavian social policy and makes an important and timely contribution to debates in political sociology, social policy and gender studies.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- GENDER AND CITIZENSHIP: Politics and Agency in France, Britain and Denmark
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Tables and Figures
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: Feminist Rethinking of Citizenship
- CHAPTER 1: Towards a Gender-sensitive Framework of Citizenship
- CHAPTER 2: Theories about Citizenship
- CHAPTER 3: Feminist Approaches to Citizenship
- CHAPTER 4: Gender and Citizenship: The French Case
- CHAPTER 5: Gender and Citizenship: The British Case
- CHAPTER 6: Gender and Citizenship: The Danish Case
- Conclusion: Towards a Contextualised Feminist Theory of Citizenship
- Appendix
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index