This book aims to initiate a dialogue between European integration theory and gender studies. The contributions illustrate how gender scholarship has made creative use of integration theories. They are designed to make gender scholarship more visible to integration theory and to stimulate the theoretical debate by adding a gender perspective.
This book offers a transnational understanding of citizenship since the late eighteenth century. Framed around three themes :agency, space and borders , the authors demonstrate what historians can bring to the study of citizenship and its relationship with the theory and practice of democracy. The essays examine the past interactions of women and men with public authorities, their participation in civic life within various kinds of polities and the meanings they attached to their actions.