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The Struggle for Female Suffrage in Europe: Voting to Become Citizens: 122
Author(s): Blanca Rodriguez Ruiz (Editor), Ruth Rubio Marín
- Publisher: Brill
- Publication Date: 7 Jun. 2012
- Language: English
- Print length: 516 pages
- ISBN-10: 9004224254
- ISBN-13: 9789004224254
Book Description
Whilst scholarship on women’s suffrage usually focuses on a few emblematic countries, The Struggle for Female Suffrage in Europe casts a comparative look at the articulation of women’s suffrage rights in the countries that now make up the political-unity-in-the-making we call the European Union. The book uncovers the dynamics that were at play in the recognition of male and female suffrage rights and in the definition of male and female citizenship in modern Europe. It allows readers to identify differences and commonalities in the histories of women’s disenfranchisement and sheds light on the role suffrage has played in the construction of female citizenship in European countries. It provides the background against which a new European paradigm of parity democracy is gradually asserting itself.
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About the Author
Blanca Rodríguez-Ruiz, Ph.D. (1995) in Law at the European University Institute (Florence, Italy) is Associate Professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Seville, Spain. Her work analyses fundamental rights, the modern family and democratic citizenship from a gender perspective.
Ruth Rubio-Marín, Ph.D (1997) at the European University Institute (Florence, Italy) holds a Chair in Constitutional and Public Comparative Law at the EUI, Italy. Her areas of interests include gender and constitutional law, migration, citizenship, language rights and transitional justice.
