Women's Movements Facing the Reconfigured State

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Edited by Lee Ann Banaszak, Karen Beckwith and Dieter Rucht

Cambridge University Press

Due/Published April 2003, 384 pages, paper

ISBN 0521012198

How have women's movements responded as state governments delegated power to transnational organizations like the European Union? Have they facilitated the shifts in state policy responsibilities to subnational governments, independent agencies, and the private sector? This study examines how women's movements have contributed and responded to changes in state powers and policy responsibility in North America and Western Europe. The international scholars contributing to this volume identify movement changes that include greater engagement with the state, specific policy-making ventures and challenges to national governments.

Contributors: Lee Ann Banaszak, Karen Beckwith, Dieter Rucht, Celia Valiente, Donatella della Porta, Jane Jenson, R. Amy Elman, Alexandra Dobrowolsky, Mary Fainsod Katzenstein, Carol McClung Mueller, John D. McCarthy, David S. Meyer

Contents

1. When power relocates: interactive changes in womenâs movements and states - Lee Ann Banaszak, Karen Beckwith and Dieter Rucht;
2. The feminist movement and the reconfigured state in Spain (1970s-2000) - Celia Valiente;
3. The women's movement, the left, and the state: continuities and changes in the Italian case - Donatella della Porta;
4. Comparing two movements for gender parity: France and Spain - Jane Jenson and Celia Valiente;
5. Refuge in reconfigured states: shelter movements in the United States, Britain, and Sweden - R. Amy Elman;
6. Shifting states: women's constitutional organizing across time and space - Alexandra Dobrowolsky;
7. The women's movement policy successes and the constraints of state reconfiguration: abortion and equal pay in differing eras - Lee Ann Banaszak;
8. The gendering ways of states: womenâs representation and state reconfiguration in France, Great Britain, and the United States - Karen Beckwith;
9. 'Re-dividing citizens' - divided feminisms: the reconfigured US state and women's citizenship - Mary Fainsod Katzenstein;
10. Cultural continuity and structural change: the logic of adaptation by radical, liberal, and socialist feminists to state reconfiguration - Carol McClung Mueller and John D. McCarthy;
11. Interactions between social movements and states in a comparative perspective - Dieter Rucht;
12. Restating the woman question: women's movements and state restructuring - David S. Meyer.