Drawing on ethnographic research with underrepresented communities in the Caribbean, Europe, South America, and the United States, this wide-ranging anthology examines the gendered dimensions of citizenship experiences and uses them as a point of departure for rethinking contemporary practices of social inclusion and national belonging.

Autorentext
Tracy Fisher is Assistant Professor of Women's Studies at the University of California, Riverside, USA.

Inhalt
Introduction: Collectivity and Comparativity: A Feminist Approach to Citizenship; Gender and Cultural Citizenship Inter-University Working Group PART I: ACTIVISM AND ORGANIZING Gender and Citizenship: Teorías in Practice in Immigrant Women's Community Organization in San Francisco; K.Coll Black Women, Cultural Citizenship, and the Struggle for Social Justice in Brazil; K.L.Caldwell Zones of Autonomy: Gendered Cultural Citizenship and Indigenous Women's Organizing in Mexico; M.Blackwell PART II: GENDER, DIASPORA, AND TRANSNATIONALISM Inappropriate/Appropriated Feelings: The Gendered Construction of Transnational Citizenship; F.Besserer The Globalization of Care: Gender Inequalities in the New Economy; R.Salazar Parreñas Queen of the Chinese Colony: Contesting Ethnicity& Nation among Chinese in Central America and Panama; L.Siu PART III: NARRATIVES OF BELONGING Gender, College, and Cultural Citizenship: A Case Study of Mexican-Heritage Students in Higher Education; R.Benmayor Gender, Belonging, and Native American Women: The Activism of Cecelia Fire Thunder and Sarah Deer; R.K.Ramirez Sex in the Nation: White Women, Brown Babies, and the Politics of Belonging; T.Fisher