Martha A. Ackelsberg

Resisting Citizenship

Feminist Essays on Politics, Community, and Democracy

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Combining her own field work and interviews with cutting edge research and theory on democracy and activism, Ackelsberg explores collective engagement in order to draw lessons-and attempt to incorporate knowledge-about current notions of democracy from those who engage in "non-traditional" participation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 286
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Oktober 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 568g
• ISBN-13: 9780415935180
• ISBN-10: 0415935180
• Artikelnr.: 27383625

Autorenporträt

Martha Ackelsberg is Five College Fortieth Anniversary Professor in the political science department at Smith College. Her research and teaching interests are in applied democratic theory, urban politics, and feminist theory.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: Rethinking Politics/Rethinking Community 1. Women's Collaborative
Activities and City Life: Politics and Policy 2. Communities, Resistance,
and Women's Activism: Reflections on Democratic Theory 3. Terrains of
Protest: Striking City Women (with Myrna Margulies Breitbart) Part 2:
Challenging Dichotomies: Dependency, Privacy, Identity, Power 4. Dependency
or Mutuality: A Feminist Perspective on Dilemmas of Welfare Policy 5.
Privacy, Publicity, and Power: A Feminist Rethinking of the Public-Private
Distinction (with Mary Lyndon Shanley) 6. Gender, Resistance, and
Citizenship: Women's Struggles With/In the State (with Mary Lyndon Shanley)
7. Rethinking Anarchism/Rethinking Power: A Contemporary Feminist
Perspective Part 3: Is Citizenship the Goal? 8. Exclusion or Inclusion? The
Ambiguities of Citizenship 9. Broadening the Study of Women's Participation
10. Women's Community Activism and the Rejection of 'Politics': Some
Dilemmas of Popular Democratic Movements 11. Families, Care, and
Citizenship: Notes Toward A Feminist Approach 12. Democracy and
(In)Equality: Community Activism and Democracy in a Time of Retrenchment