Santos Social Movements and Sexual Citizenship in Southern Europe

1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-137-29640-5
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 229 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Citizenship, Gender and Diversity

This book explores the relationship between social movements, sexual citizenship and change in Southern Europe. Providing a comparative analysis about LGBT issues in Italy, Spain and Portugal, it discusses how activism can generate legal, political and cultural impact in post-dictatorial, Catholic and EU-focused countries.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Santos, A.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Social Movements, Queer and Citizenship: Exploring Theoretical Intersections Political, Legal and Cultural Change in Southern Europe LGBT Activism, Politicians and Political Change Legal Change and the Juridification of LGBT Activism News is Power: Activism, the Media and Cultural Change Overcoming the Dichotomy: The Syncretic Activist Approach Conclusion: what Difference Do Social Movements Make? References Appendix: The Portuguese Case Study

Über Autor(innen)

ANA CRISTINA SANTOS is a Senior Researcher at the Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra, Portugal and Honorary Research Fellow at the Birkbeck Institute for Social Research, University of London, UK.