Title: Citizenship : towards a feminist synthesis

Authors: Lister, Ruth

Place: [London

Publisher: Feminist review]

Year: 1997

Journal: Feminist review

Volume: no. 57

PAGE: 28--48

Subject: Gender, Citizenship and Governance

Keywords: civil and political rights, economic, social and cultural rights, women, feminism

Abstract: The different meanings of citizenship are reviewed to argue for a synthesis of the rights and participatory traditions, linked through the notion of human agency. Next, citizenship's exclusionary tensions which have served to exclude women and minority groups from full citizenship are considered.

URL: http://www.siyanda.org/docs/lister_citizensynthesis.pdf

Document type: Portal