Vocabularies of citizenship and gender: the UK

Abstract

Citizenship has re-emerged as a key concept in late 20th century academic and political discourse in the UK. This article explores the changing nature of this discourse in mainstream political and in aca demic and activist debate. The latter both reflects the mainstream political debate and provides critical perspectives on it. In particular, it is here that we find a gender dimension and critical attention to differ ence. The article concludes by speculating about possible future directions in UK citizenship debates.