This collection responds to the need to re-evaluate the very important concept of citizenship in light of recent feminist debates. In contrast to the dominant universalizing concepts of citizenship, the volume argues that citizenship should be theorized on many different levels and in reference to diverse public and private contexts and experiences. The book seeks to demonstrate that the concept of citizenship needs to be understood from a gendered intersectional perspective and argues that, though it is often constructed in a universal way, it is not possible to interpret and indeed understand citizenship without situating it within a specific political, legal, cultural, social, and historical context.

1. Introduction: The Limits of Gendered Citizenship Jeff Hearn, Elzbieta H. Oleksy and Dorota Golanska Part 1: Supranational and European Contexts: New Political Agendas for Citizenship 2. From the Intimate to the Global: Reflections on Gendered Citizenship Ruth Lister 3. Towards Feminist Citizenship: Contentious Practices and European Challenges Emanuela Lombardo and Mieke Verloo 4. EU Gender Equality Policy: Citizens' Rights and Women's Duties Emanuela Lombardo and Petra Meier Part 2: The Nation-State in Regional Contexts: New Contradictions in Citizenship 5. Citizenship in the Newly Enlarged Europe: Contested Strategies of Achieving Gender Equality Noemi Kakucs 6. Equality Discourses at the Crossroads: Gender Equality versus Diversity Thorgerdur Thorvaldsdóttir and Thorgerdur Einarsdóttir 7. Introducing Transgender Citizenship: The UK Case Surya Monro 8. Comparative Studies of Well-Being in Terms of Gender, Ethnicity and the Concept of "Bodily Citizenship": Turning Esping-Andersen on His Head? Keith Pringle Part 3: Transnational and Migratory Contexts: New Cultural Spaces of Citizenship 9. Governing Muslim Headscarves: Regulations and Debates in Europe Siegelinde Rosenberger and Birgit Sauer 10. Negotiating Spaces of Participation: Experiences and Strategies of Skilled Immigrant Women Seeking Professional Integration Nadia Baghdadi and Yvonne Riaño 11. Ethnic Minority Women and Political Influence in Norway Line Nyhagen Predelli 12. "We Are Simply More Beautiful": Counter-Stories of Lithuanian Migrant Women in London Rasa Erentaite 13. Russian Women-Immigrants in the Nordic Countries: Finland, Norway, Sweden - Gender Perspective on Social Justice Jana Sverdljuk

Elzbieta H. Oleksy is Full Professor of Humanities at the University of Lódz and the University of Warsaw. She is Chair of the Department of Transatlantic and Media Studies and Founding Director of Women's Studies Centre, both at the University of Lódz.

Jeff Hearn is Professor in Gender Studies (Critical Studies on Men), Linköping University, Sweden, Professor, Hanken School of Economics, Finland, and Professor of Sociology, University of Huddersfield, UK.

Dorota Golanska holds a PhD in Humanities and an MA in International Relations. She is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Transatlantic and Media Studies and affiliate researcher at the Women's Studies Centre, University of Lódz.