Between Facts and Norms: Contributions to a Discourse Theory of Law and Democracy

Keywords: a Vocabulary of Culture and Society

Inclusion and democracy.

Populist Radical Right Parties in Europe.

1. Contracting In. 2. Patriarchal Confusions. 3. Contract, the Individual and Slavery. 4. Genesis, Fathers and the Political Liberty of Sons. 5. Wives, Slaves and Wage-Slaves. 6. Feminism and the Marriage Contract. 7. What's Wrong with Prostitution?

The Sexual Contract

Feminist analysis shows that the prevailing concepts of citizenship often assume a male citizen. How, then, does this affect the agency and participation of women in modern democracies? This insightful book, first published in 2000, presents a systematic comparison of the links between women's social rights and democratic citizenship in three different citizenship models: republican citizenship in France, liberal citizenship in Britain, and social citizenship in Denmark. Birte Siim argues that France still suffers from the contradictions of pro-natalist policy, and that Britain is only just starting to re-conceptualise the male-breadwinner model that is still a dominant feature. In her examination of the dual-breadwinner model in Denmark, Siim presents research about Scandinavian social policy and makes an important and timely contribution to debates in political sociology, social policy and gender studies.

Gender and Citizenship: Politics and Agency in France, Britain and Denmark

The overall aim of this article is to explore the analytical potential and normative value of Helga M. Hernes' concept about woman-friendly welfare states in analysis of Scandinavian countries. The...

Woman-friendly policies and state feminism Theorizing Scandinavian gender equality

Contents: 1. Introduction: Contested Concepts in Gender and Social Politics Barbara Hobson, Jane Lewis and Birte Siim 2. Citizenship Barbara Hobson and Ruth Lister 3. Care: Actors, Relationships and Contexts Arnlaug Leira and Chiara Saraceno 4. Social Exclusion and Gender Relations Mary Daly and Chiara Saraceno 5. Contractualization Ute Gerhard, Trudie Knijn and Jane Lewis 6. Commodification and De-commodification Trudie Knijn and Ilona Ostner 7. Representation, Agency and Empowerment Berengere Marques-Pereira and Birte Siim 8. Social Capital - An Emerging Concept Dietland Stolle with Jane Lewis Index

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Contested Concepts in Gender and Social Politics

The concept of the women-friendly welfare states, introduced by the Norwegian political scientist Helga Maria Hernes in 1987, has had a considerable influence on welfare theory and research. In thi...

The women-friendly welfare state revisited

This article discusses multicultural challenges to state feminism in Denmark and Norway, focusing both on similarities and differences in the two countries policy responses. In spite of important differences, we point towards similar problems and dilemmas in the public responses to multiculturalism and diversity among women connected to a state feminist agenda that in both countries has been rather one-sided in its conception of what women-friendliness may imply. The first part of the paper expands on institutional `tracks': (Variations in) state feminist traditions, in religious traditions, and in the inclusion of organizations of civil society in political power. The second part explores the framing of the hijab as a political issue of `intersections' of gender equality versus religious belongings. The third part investigates what we see as a `dead end' in policy making to prevent violations of women's rights; that is the general, age based, restrictions on family unification as a means to combat forced...

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Birte Siim

Papers

Gender and Citizenship: Politics and Agency in France, Britain and Denmark

Woman-friendly policies and state feminism Theorizing Scandinavian gender equality

Contested Concepts in Gender and Social Politics

The women-friendly welfare state revisited

Tracks, intersections and dead ends