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Practical theory and the politics of gender -- Creating women citizens : national frameworks for gender equality and self-determination, 1848-1968 -- Women themselves will decide : autonomous feminist mobilization, 1968-1978 -- Women help women : the women's project movement, 1975-1985 -- We want half the power : feminists and political institutions, 1982-1990 -- You can't make a state without women : German unification, 1990-1995 -- Kissing the frog? : Butler, Beijing, and Brussels remake gender relations, 1995-2005 -- Feminism, families, and the future : practical theory and global gender politics in the twenty-first century

Since the U.N.'s World Conference on Women in Mexico City in 1975, feminists around the world have campaigned with increasing success for recognition of women's full personhood and empowerment. "Global Feminism" explores the social and political developments that have energized this movement. Drawn from an international group of scholars and activists, the authors of these original essays assess both the opportunities that transnationalism has created and the tensions it has inadvertently fostered. By focusing on both the local and global struggles of today's feminist activists, this important volume reveals much about women's changing rights, treatment and impact in the global world.

Macro-level forms of inequality work intersectionally to establish democracy normatively, as well as shape its institutions. Liberal democracies, once revolutionarily new political formations, rest on an equally revolutionary understanding of male domination based not on descent, but on economic arrangements (the new 'breadwinner' role) and political institutions (the 'brotherhood' national state). Over time, social movements have diminished liberal democracy's original exclusions of women and minority ethnic men so that many citizens' daily lives now contradict this once hegemonic normative order. The US party binary pushes contemporary movements to transform or restore this understanding of democracy under the political umbrellas of the competing Democratic and Republican parties. This polarisation then contributes to the gendering of movement claims and political representation. Gendered polarisation creates opportunities for cohesion among movements on both sides and yet blocks more fundamental reforms of US democracy.

Myra Marx-Ferree on Primates of Park Avenue.

This article traces four contested identity claims that carry gender meanings into politics and express the gendered tensions awakened along specific dimensions of institutional change across the past twenty years. The cultural definition of the German nation in the face of immigration, the integration of the German state in a transnational project of making a single Europe, the economic restructuring of unification and its effects on the resources and opportunities available on each side of the former wall, and political changes in the representation of women in state offices, by parties and in national policy-making all reflect continuing struggles over the institutionalized boundaries of inclusion and exclusion as a nation, an imagined community. All of these processes engage passionate feelings about gender relations and have implications for the ordinary lives of women and men as citizens and family members in the new Berlin Republic.