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Women's Movements Facing the Reconfigured State

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Women's Movements Facing the Reconfigured State
Authors and Contributors      Edited by Lee Ann Banaszak
Edited by Karen Beckwith
Edited by Dieter Rucht
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:374
Dimensions(mm): Height 229,Width 153
Category/GenrePolitical economy
ISBN/Barcode 9780521012195
ClassificationsDewey:320.082
Audience
Professional & Vocational
Illustrations 17 Tables, unspecified; 2 Line drawings, unspecified

Publishing Details

Publisher Cambridge University Press
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publication Date 3 March 2003
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

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.

Reviews

'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