Women's Movements Facing the Reconfigured State

ISBN-13: 9780521012195 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 374 str.

Lee Ann Banaszak

Opis

How have women's movements responded as state governments delegated power to transnational organizations like the European Union? Have they facilitated the shifts in state policy responsibilities to subnational governments, independent agencies, and the private sector? This study examines how women's movements have contributed and responded to changes in state powers and policy responsibility in North America and Western Europe. The international scholars contributing to this volume identify movement changes that include greater engagement with the state, specific policy-making ventures and challenges to national governments.

Recenzje

'This book is refreshing in its depth and scope of analysis, especially in identifying and exploring the interrelated political, cultural, domestic, and international components of state reconfiguration that underlie the dynamic relation between women's movements and states.' Journal of Peace Research

Spis treści

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.