{"product_id":"civil-society-and-gender-justice-historical-and-comparative-perspectives-4-studies-on-civil-society-4-9780857451705","title":"Civil Society and Gender Justice Historical and","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCivil society and civic engagement have increasingly become topics of discussion at the national and international level. The editors of this volume ask, does the concept of  civil societyA\" include gender equality and gender justice? Or, to frame the question differently, is civil society a feminist concept?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t\u003ci\u003e“On the whole, this much needed book offers both a necessary corrective to and further development of theoretical thinking about and empirical analysis of civil society. It should be required reading among historians, political scientists and sociologists alike.”\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e  ·  Journal of Contemporary European Studies\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003ci\u003e“Civil Society and Gender Justice does double intellectual duty: at the same time that it subjects the idea of civil society to scrupulous feminist critique, it demonstrates the theoretical utility and political necessity of that concept. Cogently argued and studded with illuminating transnational case studies, this single volume is priority reading for feminists, historians, and citizens.”\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e  ·  Mary P. Ryan\u003c\/b\u003e (University of California Berkeley)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003ci\u003e“Finally, in this rich collection of sparkling essays, the much ballyhooed concept of 'civil society' receives a searching critique and reconstruction from the standpoint of gender. Ranging well beyond the usual Western European and North American contexts, the contributors disclose both the exclusionary limitations and the transformative prospects of multiple incarnations and imaginings of civil society.”\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e  ·  Nancy Fraser\u003c\/b\u003e (New School for Social Research)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e \tEditors’ Preface\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eIntroduction:\u003c\/b\u003e Gendering Civil Society\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eThe editors\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003ePART I: RETHINKING CIVIL SOCIETY AND GENDER JUSTICE \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 1.\u003c\/b\u003e Civil Society Gendered: Rethinking Theories and Practices\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eKaren Hagemann\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 2.\u003c\/b\u003e Dilemmas of Gender Justice: Gendering Equity, Justice and Recognition\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eRegina Wecker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003ePART II: EARLY CIVIL SOCIETIES IN THEORY AND PRACTICE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 3.\u003c\/b\u003e The Progress of “Civilization”: Women, Gender, and Enlightened Perspectives on Civil Society in Eighteenth-Century Britain\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eJane Rendall\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 4.\u003c\/b\u003e The City and the Citoyenne : Associational Culture and Female Civic Virtues in Nineteenth-Century Germany\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eGisela Mettele\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 5.\u003c\/b\u003e Feminists Campaign in “Public Space”: Civil Society, Gender Justice, and the History of European Feminisms\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eKaren Offen\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003ePART III: CIVIL SOCIETY AND THE FAMILY\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 6.\u003c\/b\u003e The Family – A Core Institution of Civil Society: A Perspective on the Middle Classes in Imperial Germany\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eGunilla Budde\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 7.\u003c\/b\u003e Veiled Associations: The Muslim Middle Class, the Family and the Colonial State in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century India\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eMargrit Pernau\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 8.\u003c\/b\u003e “Only Connect”: Family, Gender and Civil Society in Twentieth-Century Europe and North America\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003ePaul Ginsborg\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003ePART IV: CIVIL SOCIETY, GENDERED PROTEST, AND NONGOVERNMENTAL MOVEMENTS\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 9.\u003c\/b\u003e Necessary Confrontations: Gender, Civil Society, and the Politics of Food in Eighteenth- to Twentieth-Century Germany\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eManfred Gailus\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 10.\u003c\/b\u003e “Good” vs. “Militant” Citizens: Masculinity, Class Protest, and the “Civil” Public in Britain between 1867 and 1939\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eSonya O. Rose\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 11.\u003c\/b\u003e Civil Society in a New Key? Feminist and Alternative Groups in 1970s West Germany\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eBelinda Davis\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 12.\u003c\/b\u003e Civil Society-by-Design: Emerging Capitalisms, Essentialist Feminism and Women’s Non-Governmental Organizations in Post-Socialist Eastern Europe\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eKristen R. Ghodsee\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003ePART V: CIVIL SOCIETY, THE STATE, AND CITIZENSHIP\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 13.\u003c\/b\u003e Gender and the Paradoxes of Social Provision: From Civil Society to Welfare State\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eSonya Michel\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 14.\u003c\/b\u003e Fellow Feeling: A Transnational Perspective on Conceptions of Civil Society and Citizenship in “White Men's Countries,” 1890-1910\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eMarilyn Lake\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 15.\u003c\/b\u003e Bringing the State Back In: Civil Society, Women's Movements and the State\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eBirgit Sauer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tSelected Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e \tNotes on Contributors\u003cbr\u003e \tIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Berghahn Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51038904189271,"sku":"9780857451705","price":26.55,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780857451705.jpg?v=1750941881","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/civil-society-and-gender-justice-historical-and-comparative-perspectives-4-studies-on-civil-society-4-9780857451705","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}