Civil society and gender justice; historical and comparative perspectives.

9781845454371

Civil society and gender justice; historical and comparative perspectives.

Ed. by Karen Hagemann et al.

Berghahn Books

2008

324 pages

$95.00

Hardcover

European civil society

JC337

As Hagemann (history, U. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, US), Michel (history, U. of Maryland at College Park, US), and Budde (history, Carl von Ossietzky, U. of Oldenburg, Germany) state in their introduction, the "aims of this volume are both analytical and programmatic: to illuminate the project of civil society from the perspective of gender, and to develop a concept of civil society that more systematically integrates gender." They present 15 papers exploring gender and civil society in different eras of history. Topics include women, gender, and enlightened perspectives on civil society in 18th century Britain; associational culture and female civic virtues in 19th century Germany; civil society, gender justice, and the history of European feminism; the middle class family as a core institution of Imperial Germany's civil society; the Muslim middle class, the family, and associational life in colonial India; gender, civil society, and the politics of food in 18th to 20th century Germany; masculinity, class protest, and the "civil" public in Britain between 1867 and 1938; feminist and alternative groups in 1960s-70s West Germany; and the rise of the welfare state in the United States and the regendering of civil society.

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