Women’s Citizenship and Political Rights

1. Introduction
Sirkku K. Hellsten, Anne Maria Holli, Krassimira Daskalova

Part I. Theoretical Feminist Perspectives

2. Dilemmas of Political Participation
Shirin M. Rai

3. European Citizenship: A Political Opportunity for Women?
Ute Gerhard

4. Can Feminism Survive Capitalism? Challenges Feminist Discourses Face in Promoting Women’s Rights in Post-Soviet Europe
Sirkku K. Hellsten

5. Citizenship, Civil Society and Gender Mainstreaming: Complexities of Political Transformation in Central and Eastern Europe
Barbara Einhorn

6. ‘Gender Equality’: On Travel Metaphors and Duties to Yield
Hege Skjeie

Part II. Applying New Insights to Old Problems

7. Education and European Women’s Citizenship: Images of Women in Bulgarian History Textbooks
Krassimira Daskalova

8. Strong Together? A Comparative Study of the Impact of the Women’s Movement on Policy-Making in Finland
Anne Maria Holli

9. Transnational and National Gender Equality Politics: The European Union’s Impact on Domestic Violence Debates in Britain and Finland
Johanna Rantola

10. Implementing Gender Equality: Gender Mainstreaming or the Gap between Theory and Practice
Petra Meier

11. Good Governance and Good for Business Too? Equality and Diversity in Britain
Judith Squires

Keywords: Social Sciences, Political Sociology, Gender Studies, Human Rights, Sociology, general