Motherhood as a Counter-Hegemonic Reading of Citizenship and Agency

  • Adeela Arshad-Ayaz
  • M. Ayaz Naseem
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Abstract

Dominant articulations and understanding of citizenship and agency are gendered. From the seminal reading (and understanding) of agency and citizenship by E. P. Thompson and T. H. Marshall respectively, to groundbreaking work on agency in Paul Willis’ Learning to Labor (1977), both the structures and the subject of these structures in relation to citizenship and agency has always been male. While Janice Radway (1984) tried in earnest to recast agency through a feminist lens, dismantling the master’s house with the master’s tools proved to be a formidable challenge.

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Civil Society Social Movement Gender Identity Military Regime Political Space 
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Adeela Arshad-Ayaz
    • 1
  • M. Ayaz Naseem
    • 2
  1. 1.Department of EducationConcordia UniversityCanada
  2. 2.Department of EducationConcordia UniversityCanada

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