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Gendered Citizenship and the Politics of Representation

Palgrave Macmillan

Part of the book series: Citizenship, Gender and Diversity (FEMCIT)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
  2. Gendered Citizenship: The Politics of Representation

    • Hilde Danielsen, Kari Jegerstedt, Ragnhild L. Muriaas, Brita Ytre-Arne
    Pages 1-13
  3. Becoming a Citizen–Interrogating the Constitution of Political Subjects

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-15
    2. What Is It to Vote?

      • Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
      Pages 17-36
  4. Gendered Participation in Representative Democracies–Working from Below and/or Above?

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 85-85
    2. Constructing Citizenship: Gender and Changing Discourses in Tunisia

      • Mounira M. Charrad, Amina Zarrugh
      Pages 137-158
  5. Can Exclusions Speak?

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 235-235
    2. Can the Irregular Migrant Woman Speak?

      • Synnøve Bendixsen
      Pages 237-259
  6. Back Matter

    Pages 305-312

About this book

This book sheds new light on gender-based inequalities in a globalized world. Interdisciplinary in scope, it reveals new avenues of research on gendered citizenship, analysing the possibilities and pitfalls of being represented and of representing someone. Drawing on contexts both historical and contemporary, it queries what it means to have access to representation, which power structures regulate and produce representation, and who counts as a citizen. Situating its arguments in the global struggle for hegemony, it answers such thought-provoking questions as whether one can represent someone or be represented without recourse to citizenship and, conversely, whether it is possible to be a citizen if one does not have access to representation. This engaging edited collection will appeal to students and scholars of sociology, social anthropology, history, media studies, political science, literature, gender studies and cultural studies.


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Reviews

“This wide-ranging, richly documented set of essays opens new ways of understanding the history of women’s claims for political rights, the obstacles that have prevented their realization, and the strategies that might be devised to bring about change.” (Joan Scott Professor Emerita School of Social Science Institute for Advanced Study Princeton NJ and Adjunct Professor of History, The Graduate Center of the City University of New York)

“The multi-disciplinary feminist perspectives captured in this book add new perspectives on issues of representation and re-presentation. For scholars in the global South still grappling with Spivak’s question whether “the subaltern can speak” this book will be a timely return to that question through the problematization of exclusions, also of the radically un-representable who might speak back.” (Amanda Gouws, Distinguished Professor and SARChi Chair of Gender Politics, Department of Political Science, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa)

“This is one of the few volumes I know that addresses gendered representation across disciplines and theoretical perspectives. The outcome is a fully comprehensive, sophisticated and rigorous narrative on the complex intersections between representation and gender. An inspiring book!” (Professor Lilie Chouliaraki, Department of Media and Communications, London School of Economics and Political Science, Houghton Street,  London, WC2A 2AE, UK)

“Gendered Citizenship and the Politics of Representation includes bold, fresh and critical analyses of citizenship, representation, and inclusion through a variety of perspectives. This exciting volume expands the debates over gendered citizenship to new contexts, bringing together important social science and humanities perspectives.” (Aili Mari Tripp Professor of Political Science and Gender & Women’s Studies, University of Wisconsin, US)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Uni Research Rokkan Centre, Bergen, Norway

    Hilde Danielsen

  • Centre for Women’s and Gender Research, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway

    Kari Jegerstedt

  • Department of Comparative Politics, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway

    Ragnhild L. Muriaas

  • Department of Information Science and Media Studies, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway

    Brita Ytre-Arne

About the editors

Hilde Danielsen is Research Professor in Cultural Studies at the Uni Research Rokkan Centre in Bergen, Norway.
Kari Jegerstedt is Associate Professor in Gender Studies in the Humanities at the University of Bergen, Norway.



Ragnhild Muriaas is Associate Professor in Comparative Politics at the University of Bergen, Norway.



Brita Ytre-Arne is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Media Studies at the University of Bergen, Norway. 


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eBook USD 19.99
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Softcover Book USD 29.99
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