FEMCIT is funded by the European Commission’s 6th framework programme. FEMCIT constitutes 15 partners from 10 European countries.
While several social movements have contributed to social change in Europe during the last four decades, the goal of FEMCIT is to investigate the role of women’s movements in these transformative processes.
FEMCIT will explore the relationship between the changing forms and practices of gendered citizenship in a multicultural Europe, and the demands and practices which have emerged from contemporary women’s movements. We will study how different and changing notions and practices of citizenship relate to gender issues in Europe’s multicultural context, and explores their implications for policies.
FEMCIT brings together European scientists on citizenship and gender to address the central questions of how to ensure inclusion of all citizens. Particular emphasis is given to the importance of understanding the complexity of gendered citizenship, and to show how political citizenship is only one of many levels that need to be analysed. Strategies for ensuring female participation may need to be modified to take into account a wider understanding of citizenship, and to include understandings of the intersectional issues of ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality and cultural diversity. A holistic approach that embraces all levels of citizenship is taken and the project combines, quantitatively, qualitatively, historically and contemporary methodologies. The work programme is ambitious and innovative, and aims to achieve a level of integration that takes citizenship studies to a new level.
Main Scientific Work Packages:
WP1 - Political citizenship: Towards full political citizenship: making gender parity representation work
WP2 – Social citizenship: The impact of gender-based organising and claim making on child care and parental-leave policies
WP3 – Economic citizenship: Gendered transformations of the work-life interface
WP4 – Ethnic and religious citizenship: Intersections between feminism, ethnic identity and religion
WP5 – Sexual and bodily citizenship: Citizenship and feminist body politics
WP6 – Intimate citizenship: Women’s movements, cultural diversity, personal lives and policy
WP7: Integrative analysis: A new architecture of gender-fair citizenship in a multicultural Europe
