Gender and Cosmopolitanism in Europe: A Feminist Perspective

摘要

Ulrike Vieten foregrounds her agenda from the outset: Gender and Cosmopolitanism in Europe: A Feminist Perspective is based on her doctoral thesis with subsequent additions in order to give her work 'a more provocative twist' (p. vii). She weaves together an eclectic mixture of theories, theorists and historical background in the development of her argument, and the monograph offers a timely interjection, from a feminist perspective, into debates about globalization, Europeanization and the concept of nation. The book commences with the observation that cosmopolitanism is considered 'male business' within the academy, but is linked to 'modern femininity' via both the Cosmopolitan cocktail and the glossy women's magazine of the same name.