Elżbieta H. Oleksy - The Limits of Gendered Citizenship: Contexts and Complexities

The Limits of
Gendered Citizenship

Core editorial group: Dr. KATHY DAVIS (Utrecht University, The Netherlands), Professor JEFF HEARN (managing editor; Linkping University, Sweden; Hanken School of Economics, Finland; University of Huddersfield, UK), Professor ANNA G. JNASDTTIR (rebro University, Sweden), Professor NINA LYKKE (managing editor; Linkping University, Sweden), Professor CHANDRA TALPADE MOHANTY (Syracuse University, USA), Professor ELBIETA H. OLEKSY (University of d, Poland), Dr. ANDREA PET (Central European University, Hungary), Professor ANN PHOENIX (University of London, UK)

Routledge Advances in Feminist Studies and Intersectionality is committed to the development of new feminist and profeminist perspectives on changing gender relations, with special attention to:

1. Feminist Studies

A Guide to Intersectional Theory, Methodology and Writing

Nina Lykke

2. Women, Civil Society and the Geopolitics of Democratization

Denise M. Horn

3. Sexuality, Gender and Power

Intersectional and Transnational Perspectives

Edited by Anna G. Jnasdttir, Valerie Bryson and Kathleen B. Jones

4. The Limits of Gendered Citizenship

Contexts and Complexities

Edited by Elbieta H. Oleksy, Jeff Hearn, and Dorota Golaska

Contexts and Complexities

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The limits of gendered citizenship : contexts and complexities / edited by Elzbieta H. Oleksy, Jeff Hearn, Dorota Golanska.

p. cm. (Routledge advances in feminist studies and intersectionality ; 4)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Gender identityEurope. 2. Sex

roleEurope. 3. CitizenshipEurope. 4. SexSocial

aspectsEurope. 5. CitizenshipSocial aspectsEurope. I. Oleksy, Elzbieta H.,

1946 II. Hearn, Jeff, 1947 III. Golanska, Dorota.

HQ1075.L555 2011

305.3094dc22

2010032331

ISBN13: 978-0-415-88706-9 (hbk)

ISBN13: 978-0-203-83153-3 (ebk)

JEFF HEARN, ELBIETA H. OLEKSY, AND DOROTA GOLASKA

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EMANUELA LOMBARDO AND MIEKE VERLOO

EMANUELA LOMBARDO AND PETRA MEIER

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THORGERDUR THORVALDSDTTIR AND THORGERDUR EINARSDTTIR

SURYA MONRO

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Series Editors Foreword

This volume is the fourth in the series Routledge Advances in Feminist Studies and Intersectionality. It is a contribution to contemporary feminist studies and analyses conducted in the context and acknowledgement of transnational and intersectional perspectives. Looked at from a broad and historical viewpoint, feminist studies is a vibrant and developing transnational phenomenon and web of activity. Feminist theories and practices have shown that gender is a major structuring force and principle in and across societies and cultures, both globally and locally. Gender relations are both subject to change and resistance to change, within what can only be seen as a turbulent historical period. Moreover, at the same time that gender and gender relations have become more fully recognized and analyzed in research, scholarship, intervention, politics and activism, the notion of gender has also become complex and perhaps even less certain.

One major source of these complications is the presence of multiple intersections in and around gender, gender relations and gender powers. These include intersections between gender and power differentials based on age, class, dis/abilities, ethnicity, nationality, racialisation, sexuality, violence, and other social divisions. Further broad intersections continue and change, societally and transsocietally, between culture, economy, generativity, polity, sexuality, science and technology. A third, and crucial, form of intersections is between different branches of feminist theorizing, including: historical materialist feminisms, postcolonial and anti-racist feminisms, radical feminisms, sexual difference feminisms, queerfeminisms, cyberfeminisms, posthuman feminisms, and critical studies on men and masculinities. These themselves present differential understandings of and intersections between discourse, embodiment and materiality, and sex and gender. Together, these various intersections feed into and draw from a fourth set of intersections of the humanities, the social sciences, and the medical, technical and natural sciences. As such, the Series is committed to a process of intense transdisciplinarity.

We see these complex and changing formations as themselves the product of and contributing to the travelling of feminist ideas, theories and concepts, as well as their critical analysis. Thus, the Series is set within a politics of location. In particular, this reflexivity and transnational contextualizing reflects the basis of the Series framed within European diversity and trans-national power relations. Overall, this series,