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FEMCIT aims to provide policy makers, decision makers, social actors, and the academic community with evidence and analysis of the complex dynamics of gendered citizenship in a multicultural context. Research conducted under the auspices of the FEMCIT initiative considers the following questions, among others:

 

* What role have women’s movements played in transforming European societies and European culture since the 1960s?
* How have they changed our everyday lives and relationships?
* How have they impacted upon our involvement in politics and civil society?
* How are gender issues re-shaping the meaning of citizenship in an increasingly multicultural
Europe?


Main Aims
- To produce an interdisciplinary understanding of gendered citizenship in a multicultural and changing Europe, in terms of six dimensions of citizenship: political, social, economic, ethnic/ religious, bodily/sexual, and intimate citizenship
- To develop an integrative analysis of the interrelationships between these six dimensions
- To investigate how different and changing notions and practices of citizenship have been articulated by contemporary women’s movements
- To evaluate the impact of European feminist women’s movements on citizenship discourses and practices since the 1960s
- To undertake cross-national and comparative studies, as well as national case studies of gendered citizenship
- To assess the current state of women’s citizenship in Europe, with particular attention to differences of race/ ethnicity, class, sexuality, religion, region and nationality
- To develop policy recommendations to promote women’s full citizenship and gender-fair citizenship

 

Publications and Dialogue
FEMCIT will produce reports for policy makers and academics, scientific papers for journals, books, and articles aimed at the general public. We are keen to discuss our research with journalists, policy makers and non-governmental and citizens’ organizations. We will be organizing a number of seminars, conferences and other events across Europe over the coming years. Please visit our website regularrly for more information and updates.

PhD Students and Research Training
FEMCIT has a number of PhD students attached to its programme of research, and will be running events for PhD students, including two PhD courses.

For more information, please contact us:
E-Mail: post@femcit.org or see our ′events′ page.

 

FEMCIT is a research project funded under the Sixth Framework of the European Commission. The project duration is from February 1st, 2007 until January 31st, 2011.


Download a FEMCIT leaflet(.pdf).

6_frameworkFEMCIT is funded by EU's Sixth Framework Programme Coordinated by the University of Bergen.