Women's movements facing the reconfigured state
By: edited by Lee Ann Banaszak, Karen Beckwith, Dieter Rucht
Contributors: Banaszak, Lee Ann, 1960-; Beckwith, Karen, 1950-; Rucht, Dieter
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 350
Subjects: Feminism -- Europe, Western; Feminism -- North America; Women in politics -- Europe, Western; Women in politics -- North America; Europe, Western -- Politics and government -- 1989-; North America -- Politics and government
Description: Publisher Description (unedited publisher data) 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-332) and index