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Resisting Citizenship: Feminist Essays on Politics, Community, and Democracy
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Resisting Citizenship: Feminist Essays on Politics, Community, and Democracy Hardcover - 2009

by Martha A. Ackelsberg


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Political participation in America--supposedly the world's strongest democracy--is startlingly low, and many of the civil rights and economic equity initiatives that were instituted in the 1960s and '70s have been abandoned, as significant proportions of the populace seem to believe that the civil rights battle has been won. However, rates of collective engagement, like community activism, are surprisingly high. In Resisting Citizenship, renowned feminist political scientist Martha Ackelsberg argues that community activism may hold important clues to reviving democracy in this time of growing bureaucratization and inequality.

This book brings together many of Ackelsberg's writings over the past 25 years, combining her own field work and interviews with cutting edge research and theory on democracy and activism. She explores these efforts in order to draw lessons--and attempt to incorporate knowledge--about current notions of democracy from those who engage in "non-traditional" participation, those who have, in many respects, been relegated to the margins of political life in the United States.

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  • Title Resisting Citizenship: Feminist Essays on Politics, Community, and Democracy
  • Author Martha A. Ackelsberg
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 276
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Routledge, New York
  • Date 2009
  • ISBN 9780415935180 / 0415935180
  • Weight 1.15 lbs (0.52 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.2 x 6.3 x 0.8 in (23.37 x 16.00 x 2.03 cm)
  • Themes
    • Interdisciplinary Studies: Women's Studies
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
  • Library of Congress subjects Political participation - United States, Feminism - United States
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2009003541
  • Dewey Decimal Code 320.082

About the author

Martha Ackelsberg is Five College Fortieth Anniversary Professor in the political science department at Smith College. Her research and teaching interests are in applied democratic theory, urban politics, and feminist theory.

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