Women's Movements Facing the Reconfigured State
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Women's Movements Facing the Reconfigured State by Lee Ann Banaszak
This book examines the relationship between women's movements and states in West Europe and North America, as states have relocated their formal powers and policy-making responsibilities. Since the 1980s, North American and West European states have reduced the scope and volume of their national responsibilities, increasingly employing neoliberal free market rhetoric, and developed transnational economic and political authorities. Simultaneously, second wave women's movements have been transformed. Movements that were revolutionary in rhetoric, autonomous from states, and largely informally organized in the 1970s are, by the 1990s, employing moderate neoliberal rhetoric, entering state institutions as active participants, and creating more formal organizations. Utilizing a common theoretical framework, the contributors examine how movements have influenced the reconfiguration of nation-states and how these changes have influenced the goals, mobilization, tactics, success and rhetoric of women's movements in various Western European and North American countries.
'This book is refreshing in its depth and scope of analysis, especially in identifying and exploring the interrelated political, cultural, domestic, and international components of state reconfiguration that underlie the dynamic relation between women's movements and states' Journal of Peace Research
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| ISBN 13 | 9780521012195 |
| ISBN 10 | 0521012198 |
| Title | Women's Movements Facing the Reconfigured State |
| Author | Lee Ann Banaszak |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 2003-03-03 |
| Number of pages | 374 |
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