Intersectional and transnational approaches to gender and citizenship: Contributions and contestations

Citizenship is essential for our ideas about equality, social justice, and democracy. This is relevant when we think of local, national, or regional forms of citizenship, as well as thinking about human rights and global citizenship. Gender is important for thinking about citizenship since claims for gender equality and social justice are central aims of democratic processes. Gender and gender identity relate to other categories, such as sexual orientation, ‘race’, class, religion, nationality, and indigeneity. Issues relating to gender and citizenship have been, are, and will continue to be politically contested by a diversity of actors within civil society and political institutions in societies around the world. These issues have engaged feminist researchers situated in the Global North as well as in the Global South. This chapter aims to provide a critical overview over influential theoretical, analytical, and normative approaches, key concepts, topics, and innovative research in contemporary scholarship about gender and citizenship, with a special focus on intersectional and transnational approaches to gender and citizenship.