Bibliography: (pages 249-313) and indexes.

Introduction: why citizenship? -- Part One: A theoretical framework -- What is citizenship? -- Inclusion or exclusion? -- A differentiated universalism -- Beyond dichotomy -- Part Two: Across The public-private divide: policy, practice and politics -- Private-public: the barriers to citizenship -- Women's political citizenship: different and equal -- Women's social citizenship: earning and caring -- Conclusion: towards a feminist theory and praxis of citizenship

The second edition of this text substantially revises and extends the original, so as to take account of theoretical and policy developments and to enhance its international scope. Drawing on a range of disciplines and literatures, the book provides a broad account of citizenship. It recasts traditional thinking about the concept so as to pinpoint important theoretical issues and their political and policy implications for women in their diversity. Themes of inclusion and exclusion (at national and international level), rights and participation, inequality and difference are thus all brought to the fore in the development of a woman friendly, gender inclusive theory and praxis of citizenship.