Women and Citizenship

by Marilyn Friedman

Book Overview

The notion of citizenship is complex; it can be at once an identity; a set of rights, privileges, and responsibilities; an elevated and exclusionary status, a relationship between individual and state, and more. In recent decades citizenship has attracted interdisciplinary attention, particularly with the transnational growth of Western capitalism. Yet citizenship's relationship to gender has gone relatively unexplored--despite the globally pervasive...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195175352
• ISBN13: 9780195175356
• Release Date: October 2005
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.5" x 9.1"