The underlying theme of this edited collection is gendered citizenship, as well as the challenges and limits that confront the gendering of citizenship. It critiques the notion of the genderless nation-state citizen - in both analytical and policy terms and contexts - and necessarily engages with at least three major sets of contradictions or tensions: limitations on achieving gender equal or gender equitable citizenship; relations and differences between gender equality policy, diversity policy, and gender mainstreaming; and interplays of academic analyses of and practical interventions on gendered citizenship. Contributors from diverse scientific disciplines and academic backgrounds aim to provide a better understanding of the challenges that societies within Europe and elsewhere face vis-à-vis diversity, regionalism, transnationalism, and migration.

1. Introduction: The Limits of Gendered Citizenship Jeff Hearn, Elzbieta H. Oleksy and Dorota Golanska Part 1: Supranational and European Contexts: New Political Agendas for Citizenship 2. From the Intimate to the Global: Reflections on Gendered Citizenship Ruth Lister 3. Towards Feminist Citizenship: Contentious Practices and European Challenges Emanuela Lombardo and Mieke Verloo 4. EU Gender Equality Policy: Citizens' Rights and Women's Duties Emanuela Lombardo and Petra Meier Part 2: The Nation-State in Regional Contexts: New Contradictions in Citizenship 5. Citizenship in the Newly Enlarged Europe: Contested Strategies of Achieving Gender Equality Noemi Kakucs 6. Equality Discourses at the Crossroads: Gender Equality versus Diversity Thorgerdur Thorvaldsdóttir and Thorgerdur Einarsdóttir 7. Introducing Transgender Citizenship: The UK Case Surya Monro 8. Comparative Studies of Well-Being in Terms of Gender, Ethnicity and the Concept of "Bodily Citizenship": Turning Esping-Andersen on His Head? Keith Pringle Part 3: Transnational and Migratory Contexts: New Cultural Spaces of Citizenship 9. Governing Muslim Headscarves: Regulations and Debates in Europe Siegelinde Rosenberger and Birgit Sauer 10. Negotiating Spaces of Participation: Experiences and Strategies of Skilled Immigrant Women Seeking Professional Integration Nadia Baghdadi and Yvonne Riaño 11. Ethnic Minority Women and Political Influence in Norway Line Nyhagen Predelli 12. "We Are Simply More Beautiful": Counter-Stories of Lithuanian Migrant Women in London Rasa Erentaite 13. Russian Women-Immigrants in the Nordic Countries: Finland, Norway, Sweden - Gender Perspective on Social Justice Jana Sverdljuk