European Women´s Movements and Body Politics

0446333 - SOÚ 2016 RIV GB eng M - Monography Chapter
Outshoorn, J. - Dudová, Radka - Prata, A. - Freidenvall, L.
Women's Movements and Bodily Integrity.
European Women´s Movements and Body Politics. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015 - (Outshoorn, J.), s. 1-21. ISBN 978-1-137-35165-4
Institutional support: RVO:68378025
Keywords : body * citizenship * abortion
Subject RIV: AO - Sociology, Demography

The political ideas and practices women developed across a range of ‘body’ issues since the beginning of second wave feminism in the late 1960s in Western European democracies and later in the post-transition states of Southern and Eastern Europe did not draw on the concept of citizenship, but sought to establish women’s autonomy regarding the body. In this way they revealed the genderedness of ‘universal’ concepts as citizenship, human rights and justice, which were originally based on a false universalism taking the male as norm. In the chapter, we present the concept of citizenship and it´s feminist critique, including Carole Pateman, Ruth Lister and Shola Orloff. Then we discuss the need of the concept of the bodily citizenship as a separate dimension of citizenship, distinct from the concept of the intimate citizenship.
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