The Struggle for Female Suffrage in Europe

Voting to Become Citizens
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-90-04-22425-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 122, 500 Seiten, Format (B × H): 159 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 909 g

Reihe: International Studies in Sociology and Social Anthropology

Whilst scholarship on women’s suffrage usually focuses on a few emblematic countries, The Struggle for Female Suffrage in Europe casts a comparative look at the articulation of women’s suffrage rights in the countries that now make up the political-unity-in-the-making we call the European Union. The book uncovers the dynamics that were at play in the recognition of male and female suffrage rights and in the definition of male and female citizenship in modern Europe. It allows readers to identify differences and commonalities in the histories of women’s disenfranchisement and sheds light on the role suffrage has played in the construction of female citizenship in European countries. It provides the background against which a new European paradigm of parity democracy is gradually asserting itself.

Zielgruppe

All those interested in gender studies, women's history, women's rights and citizenship, as well as those interested in modern history and the rise of the European modern states and citizenship.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Rodriguez Ruiz, Blanca

Rubio Marín, Ruth

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsgeschichte, Recht der Antike
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Feminismus, Feministische Theorie
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtssoziologie, Rechtspsychologie, Rechtslinguistik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Transition to Modernity, the Conquest of Female Suffrage, and Women’s Citizenship, Blanca Rodríguez-Ruiz and Ruth Rubio-Marín
A Long Tradition of Equality: Women’s Suffrage in Finland, Aura Korppi-Tommola
Democratisation of Denmark: The Inclusion of Women in Political Citizenship, Christina Fiig and Birte Siim
The Development of Women’s Rights in Lithuania: Striving for Political Equality, T. Birmontiene and V. Jureniene
Winning Women’s Vote: Experience from Latvia, Aija Branta
Suffrage and the Nation: Women’s Vote in Estonia, Helen Biin and Anneli Albi
Winning Women’s Vote in Germany, Ute Sacksofsky
Polish Women’s Fight for Suffrage, Malgorzata Fuszara
Female Suffrage in Luxembourg, Sonja Kmec
The Women’s Vote in The Netherlands: From the ‘Houseman’s Vote’ to Full Citizenship, Inge Bleijenbergh and Jet Bussemaker
Gaining the Vote in a World in Transition: Female Suffrage in Austria, Birgitta Bader-Zaar
Mothers of the Nation: Women’s Vote in the Czech Republic, Dana Musilová
The Contexts of National and Gender Belonging: The History of Female Suffrage in Slovakia, Lubica Kobová
How Women Gained Suffrage in Sweden: A Weave of Alliances, Lena Wängnerud
Divisions and Debates: The Irish Suffrage Experience, Myrtle Hill
Great Britain, Krista Cowman
Constructing Women’s Citizenship: The Conquest of Suffrage and Women’s Political Rights in Spain, Amparo Rubiales and Ana Aguado
The Difficult Struggle for Women’s Political Rights in France, Sylvie Chaperon
Women’s Suffrage in Bulgaria, Krassimira Daskalova
Female Suffrage in Slovenia, Irena Selišnik
The Achievement of Female Suffrage in Romania, Roxana Cheschebec
From the Struggle for Suffrage to the Construction of a Fragile Gender Citizenship: Italy 1861-2009, Susanna Mancini
Female Suffrage in Malta, Ruth Farrugia
Caught Between Strategic Positions and Principles of Equality: Female Suffrage in Belgium, Petra Meier
Development Defined by Paradoxes: Hungarian History and Female Suffrage, Csilla Kollonay-Lehoczky
So Difficult to be Considered as Citizens: The History of Women’s Suffrage in Greece, 1864-2001, Demetra Samiou
Women’s Suffrage in Cyprus, Kalliope Agapiou-Josephides
Winning Women’s Vote: Female Suffrage in Portugal, Maria Lúcia Amaral and Teresa Anjinho
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Über Autor(innen)

Rubio Marín, Ruth
Ruth Rubio-Marín, Ph.D (1997) at the European University Institute (Florence, Italy) holds a Chair in Constitutional and Public Comparative Law at the EUI, Italy. Her areas of interests include gender and constitutional law, migration, citizenship, language rights and transitional justice.

Rodriguez Ruiz, Blanca
Blanca Rodríguez-Ruiz, Ph.D. (1995) in Law at the European University Institute (Florence, Italy) is Associate Professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Seville, Spain. Her work analyses fundamental rights, the modern family and democratic citizenship from a gender perspective.

Blanca Rodríguez-Ruiz, Ph.D. (1995) in Law at the European University Institute (Florence, Italy) is Associate Professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Seville, Spain. Her work analyses fundamental rights, the modern family and democratic citizenship from a gender perspective.

Ruth Rubio-Marín, Ph.D (1997) at the European University Institute (Florence, Italy) holds a Chair in Constitutional and Public Comparative Law at the EUI, Italy. Her areas of interests include gender and constitutional law, migration, citizenship, language rights and transitional justice.