What, according to feminists, is wrong with citizenship?
Essay Planning and Structure
The essay shall have a general introduction that endeavors to explicate succinctly the most explicit concepts in modern citizenship and controversies in as far as gender parity is concerned.
The body shall attempt to make in in-depth and well-researched topics on contention by most feminist activists especially in current political overhauls and profound changes in policies, such as was happened during the Arab spring. The essay shall be structured into topics and subtopics such as, the Current topography in gender and citizenship, improvements in gender parity considerations in the past, racism and citizenry, current hurdles in reformation and implementation, current and future prospects in feminist activism and politicization and a prediction of the future of citizenship and womanhood policies. It shall answer question like how wrong will the future citizenship be represented.
The conclusion shall then endeavor to make a succinct summation of the ideas presented about the offsets of current citizenship and feminism. Draw and conclude on the ideas about citizenship presented in the document, especially what was seen as being of course in light of feminism and activism.
The essay shall draw from the following annotated bibliography
Annotated Bibliography
Collier, R. (2010), Men, law and gender essays on the ‘man’ of law, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon New York, NY, Routledge.
This book is about the first hand experiences in the interpretation of gender and the limitations of citizenship. In the book, one is able to decipher the intricate relationships that have existed between man, the law (and in it the definition of citizenship) and gender. Its topography spans over varied legal and social policies.
Ife, J. (2008), Human Rights and Critical Whiteness: Who’s Humanity? The International Journal of Human Rights, Doi: 10.1080/13642980802069609
To define citizenship, in the construes and paradigms of the United Nations statues human rights are used as the framework of reference. The policies of citizenship vary across the entire world and for one to understand them wholly and perhaps decipher their limitations, this is necessary. For instance, are citizenship and human rights ideas from western projects (in event such as the European Enlightenment) and thus find it necessary to be maimed when being implemented and innovated by other countries worldwide. From this, weakness in citizenship and perhaps their origins may be understood.
Mansbridge J. (1998), ‘Should Blacks Represent Blacks and Women Represent Women? A contingent “Yes”, Journal of Politics, 61(3): 628-657
Throughout history, the understanding of racism, feminism and citizenry have experienced wide controversy. It has come to be conceived as though, in the fight for proper citizenship in representation and implementation, there is a wide and vivid demarcation. Is this the truth? This books tries to explicate this.
Messner, M. (1997), Politics of masculinities: men in movements, Thousand Oaks, Calif, Sage Publications. In light of the perpetual definitions of feminism, form the ages of activism to today, the role of men and masculinity has taken profound changes, even in its intricate definition. This is vital is in the definition of the shortcomings in the definitions and viewpoints in citizenship. This book gives a good picture of the crises pertaining to social organization, and thus, ideas in citizenship can be developed from these frameworks.
Michael A. Messner, Max A. Greenberg & Tal Peretz (2015), some men: Feminist allies and the movement to end violence against women, Oxford University Press.
The development and current concepts in citizenships and how wrong its can be purported or construed to mean, was developed from the feminism activism since the early 1970s. Men were then forced to embrace womanhood into the previous interpretations and representations of citizenry. The work of men of these men who supported feminist activism played a big role in developing the kind of citizenship in most countries today.
Millns, S. & Whitty, N. (2013), Feminist perspectives on public law, London, Cavendish Pub.
How do women view the definitions of law in as far as citizenship is concerned. In this book, this is created in an intricate way. Female perspectives towards the definitions, implementation and understanding of citizenry can be picked one by one from the discussions in this book.
Nash, K. (2001), Feminism and Contemporary Liberal Citizenship: The Undecidability of ‘Women’, Citizenship Studies. Doi: 10.1080/13621020120085234
The understanding of the liberalism in the definition of citizenship has been long known to pose difficulties. In this article, the construes of directly equating women to men and overlooking their gender significance may hamper the development and implementation of policies in citizenship. This article
