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Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society Advance Access published online on December 8, 2007
Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society, doi:10.1093/sp/jxm023
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Gender and Civil Society: Time for Cross-Border Dialogue

Jude Howell

This article sets out to provide a framework for thinking about the gendered nature of civil society. The first section looks at how civil society researchers, both past and present, have failed to provide any analysis of the gendered relations of civil society. This is not least because the family is posited as a residual boundary-marker for the purposes of clearing the analytic path for the investigation of state-civil society relations. Similarly, feminist researchers have not reworked civil society theories to explain the engendering of civil society, a key reason for this being that civil society is not an organizing category for analyzing gender relations. In the final section we propose a framework of analysis that uses a circuit of gender relations to trace the flow of gendered norms, values, and practices across the sites of the state, market, civil society, and the family.


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