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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820980903321

Autore

Ackelsberg Martha A.

Titolo

Resisting citizenship : feminist essays on politics, community, and democracy / / Martha A. Ackelsberg

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2010

ISBN

1-135-77523-0

0-203-72441-0

1-283-96853-3

1-135-77516-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (289 p.)

Disciplina

320.082

Soggetti

Women - Political activity - United States

Political participation - United States

Feminism - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. I. Rethinking politics/rethinking community -- pt. II. Challenging dichotomies : dependency, privacy, identity, power -- pt. III. Is citizenship the goal?.

Sommario/riassunto

Political participation in America-supposedly the world's strongest democracy-is startlingly low, and many of the civil rights and economic equity initiatives that were instituted in the 1960s and '70s have been abandoned, as significant proportions of the populace seem to believe that the civil rights battle has been won. However, rates of collective engagement, like community activism, are surprisingly high. In Resisting Citizenship, renowned feminist political scientist Martha Ackelsberg argues that community activism may hold important clues to reviving democracy in this time o