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Introduction This
website in progress is dedicated to annotated bibliographies on a variety
of subjects related to adult citizenship education. Among the topics
reviewed are citizenship theory, popular education, adult citizenship
learning, participatory democracy, and political learning of immigrants.
Each annotated bibliography will be preceded by a general essay outlining
the main issues and debates brought forward in the literature. The
first annotated bibliography belongs to the general area of citizenship
theory, and deals specifically with the feminist debates on citizenship
and difference. It was prepared by Patricia Durish, a doctoral student at
the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of
Toronto (OISE/UT). It consists of a comprehensive annotated bibliography
that includes more than hundred works, with cross-references. Most of the
works are articles published in leading journals during the last decade,
but there are also commentaries on books and edited volumes. Although the
bulk of the annotated bibliography is on feminist scholarship, Durish also
reviews some influential contributions to citizenship theory (e.g. T.H.
Marshall, B. Turner, J. Habermas, W. Kymlicka, Hall and Held, Laclau and
Mouffe, etc). This
impressive annotated bibliography is preceded by a thoughtful and
enlightening introductory essay, in which Patricia Durish walks us through
the complexities of the main debates on feminist theories of citizenship,
identifies trends and gaps, and suggests new lines of inquiry.
After reviewing a vast scholarly production on this topic, Patricia
Durish argues in this essay that, save a few exceptions, the field has not
advanced much since the groundbreaking contribution of Carole Pateman in
her classic work, The Sexual Contract (1988).
Durish suggests that it is time to move the field forward, and
proposes two possible directions. One is to continue undertaking critical
empirical work, focusing on the way that various groups experience
citizenship or the actual effects of various policy initiatives. In her
view, this type of work contributes to our understanding of actual
existing relations, practice and policies of citizenship, and challenges
abstract liberal theory in that it demonstrates the contradictory and
variable character of citizenship in western democracies. The other path
is to deepen and refine the recent feminist research on the role played by
culture in producing and reproducing inequalities of citizenship. Durish
suggests that the new knowledge produced by both lines of inquiry can
contribute to the development of an alternative model of citizenship and
can generate the basis for a feminist radical democracy that challenges
public/private demarcations. We
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