Social movements can improve the well-being of men and women but are frequently analysed through a gender-neutral lens. Taking an international and cross-disciplinary perspective, this book examines the impact of social movements on political and material well-being, self-definition and the capabilities to be gendered political actors in transnational political spaces.

Contents: Preface; The impact of social movements on gendered well-being in Europe, Alison E. Woodward, Jean-Michel Bonvin and Mercè Renom; Part I The Transformation of Political and Material Well-Being and Power: Mercè Renom and Alison E. Woodward; Subsistence movements in 18th-century Catalonia: material and political aspects in gendered food protests, Mercè Renom; Money matters: the impacts of class and gender on the first wave of women's movements financing strategies, Pernilla Jonsson and Silke Neunsinger; Working women an 'de-unionization': the struggles for autonomy, Conchi Vilar, Mònica Borrell, Carles Enrech, Juanjo Romero-Marín and Jordi Ibarz; Second wave feminism and the capability approach: the Swiss case, Sylvie Burgnard; Anti-modernist utopia in 'new Europe': protest, gender and well-being, Andrea Petö. Part II The Transformation of Intimate Citizenship: Bodies, Personal Capacities and the Intimate Conditions of Life: Jean-Michel Bonvin; Gender family policies and democracy in Eastern Europe after 1989, Jacqueline Heinen; Dutch women's health care movement and the transformation of the welfare state in the Netherlands 1975-2005, Berteke Waaldijk; Redefining well-being through actions: women's activism and the Polish state, Magda Grabowska and Joanna Regulska; Not quite women: lesbian activism in Portugal, Ana Maria Brandão; We can't have men giving birth! (but we do). The impact of the Belgian transgender movement on the well-being of transgender persons in Belgium, Joz Motmans; Intimate citizenship and gendered well-being: the claims and interventions of women's movements in Europe, Sasha Roseneil, Isabel Crowhurst, Tone Hellesund, Ana Cristina Santos and Mariuya Stoilva. Part III The Transformation of Political Fora and Spaces: Making a Place for Global Issues and the Transformation of Women's Well-Being Beyond Borders: Alison E. Woodward; Women's mobilization in conflicts over female Muslim covering: an opportunity for the well-being of wo

Alison E. Woodward is Research Professor at the Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Belgium. Jean-Michel Bonvin is lecturer at the University of Western Switzerland, Lausanne, Switzerland. Mercè Renom is historian and researcher at the Institut Interuniversitari d'Estudis de Dones i Gènere (Interuniversity Institute for Women and Gender Studies), Barcelona, Spain.