TY - BOOK ID - 78640978 TI - Resisting citizenship PY - 2010 SN - 0203724410 1283968533 1135775168 9781135775162 9780203724415 9780415935180 0415935180 9780415935197 0415935199 9781135775230 9781135775308 1135775230 PB - New York Routledge DB - UniCat KW - Women KW - Political participation KW - Feminism KW - Political activity KW - Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality KW - Political sociology KW - United States KW - Feminisme. KW - Politiek. KW - United States of America KW - Politics KW - Social movements KW - Women's movements KW - Book KW - Activism KW - Democracy KW - Citizenship UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78640978 AB - Political participation in America-supposedly the world's strongest democracy-is startlingly low, and many of the civil rights and economic equity initiatives that were instituted in the 1960s and '70s have been abandoned, as significant proportions of the populace seem to believe that the civil rights battle has been won. However, rates of collective engagement, like community activism, are surprisingly high. In Resisting Citizenship, renowned feminist political scientist Martha Ackelsberg argues that community activism may hold important clues to reviving democracy in this time o ER -