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Citizenship: Pushing the limits brings jointly international views and problems with citizenship particularly neighborhood and nationwide contexts. It comprehensively covers modern feminist debates on citizenship equivalent to: citizenship as a standing bestowing rights and tasks, passive and energetic citizenship, and the differences and interconnections among the private and non-private citizen.
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3 The policy trend in both the US and Europe is to include lone parents in the obligation to undertake paid work. The clearest example in Europe is the Netherlands where the presumption that lone mothers are exempt from the obligation to undertake paid work is progressively being abandoned. In contrast, the UK is one of very few countries which still permit lone parents to claim social 42 FEMINIST REVIEW NO 57, AUTUMN 1997 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 assistance until their youngest child is of school-leaving age without being required to register for paid work.
26 Citizenship: Towards a feminist synthesis Ruth Lister Abstract A synthesis of rights and participatory approaches to citizenship, linked through the notion of human agency, is proposed as the basis for a feminist theory of citizenship. Such a theory has to address citizenship’s exclusionary power in relation to both nation-state ‘outsiders’ and ‘insiders’. With regard to the former, the article argues that a feminist theory and politics of citizenship must embrace an internationalist agenda.
Feminist attitudes towards rights stretch from their embrace by liberal feminists as central to any reform programme to their dismissal by radical feminists as merely the expression of male values and power (for a discussion, see Bryson, 1992). Those writing in a socialist tradition are wary of the individualistic nature of rights; a number of feminist theorists have counterpoised an ethic of care against an ethic of justice or rights and feminist legal theorists tend to caution against placing too much faith in rights, while also counselling against outright rejection.