Mothers and Muslima's, Sisters and Sojourners;The Contested Boundaries of Feminist Citizenship

In: Prins , B 2007 , ' Mothers and Muslima's, Sisters and Sojourners;The Contested Boundaries of Feminist Citizenship ' , Kathy Davis, Mary Evans, Judith Lorber (eds.) Handbook of Gender and Women's Studies , pp. 234-250 .

Abstract

In the early 1990's, many feminist philosophers found that the practice of the women´s movement as well as those of other new social movements, could be articulated most adequately in terms of citizenship. The classical political vocabulary of citizenship seemed to offer a viable alternative to the vocabularies that until then had been dominant in feminist political theory: the individualistic, rights-oriented discourse of liberalism, and the structuralist, interest-oriented perspectives of socialism and marxism.