Gender and Citizenship in a Multicultural Context

The Editors: Elzbieta H. Oleksy is Professor of Humanities at the University of Lódz and the University of Warsaw in Poland. She is Founding Director of Women's Studies Centre at University of Lódz. Her research and teaching focus on cultural studies.
Andrea Petö is a historian. She is Associate Professor at the Department of Gender Studies at the Central European University and Associate Professor at the University of Miskolc (Hungary), where she directs the Equal Opportunity and Gender Studies Center.
Berteke Waaldijk is a historian. She is Professor of Language and Culture Studies at Utrecht University (the Netherlands). She is the academic coordinator of ATHENA3, Advanced Thematic Network in European Women's Studies, an EU-sponsored network for Women's Studies.

Contents : Ingrid Maria Hoofd: Feminist Activism in the High-tech West: The Complicity of Transversal and Networked Politics in Speed - Daniela Gronold: A European Matter: Examples of "Lived Citizenship" in the Slovenian Nation State - Isabelle Carles: Interdisciplinary Research Group on "Gender and Migration". Citizenship and Rights: the Use of Racial Anti-discrimination Laws in a Gender Perspective - Simon Lapierre/Katrin Bain: Parental Responsibility and Partnership: Citizenship and Gender in British Children and Families Social Services - Arturas Tereskinas: Lithuanian Gays and Lesbians "Coming Out" in the Public/Private Divide: Sexual Citizenship Lithuanian Style - Barbara Bagilhole/Abigail Powell/Andrew Dainty: What Is It About UK Engineering Higher Education (HE) that Deters Women from an Engineering Career - Cathrine Hasse/Maja Hojer: Acknowledging Materiality as Agential Literacy - Malgorzata Miazek/Jenny Vainio: Reconciliation of Work and Family: Gender Differences Among Finnish and Polish Physicists - Marie-Pierre Moreau: " Plus Ça Change, Plus C'est La Même Chose ? " : A Cross-National Comparison Of Gender Inequalities In The Teaching Profession - Julie Jarty: "Work/Life" Balance Regulations and Citizenship in Europe: A Comparative Study of Teachers' Careers in France and Spain - Cornelia Schneider: Gender Action Plans - Effective Instruments for Promoting Gender Equality in the Sixth EU Framework Programme? Results of a Survey carried out by the FiF Contact Point "Women into EU Research" - Liedeke Plate: A Chapter in Cultural History? Literary "Re-Vision" and Citizenship - Edyta Just: The Visual Representation of IVF - Julie D. Palmer: The "Technofetus" as Citizen: The Impact of Three-Dimensional Ultrasound - Jelena Petrovic: Screening the Margins: The Representation of the Roma/Gypsy Woman in Film Production - Katarzyna Szmigiero: Masculinity and Madness: Cultural Representations of Mentally Ill Men - Carolyn Pedwell: Intersections and Entanglements: Tracing "the Anorexic" and "the Veiled Woman" - Emilia Korytkowska: "He Will Make You Suffer!" - Masculism's Encounters with "the Arab" in the Context of Polish-Arab Intermarriages.