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Women and Social Capital: A Comment on Hall's ‘Social Capital in Britain’

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Hall's interesting article contains the bold, but undeveloped, argument that ‘social capital has been sustained in Britain largely by virtue of the increasing participation of women in the community’. Hall's statement draws attention to the curious silence within the social capital debate about gender dynamics. Hall modestly notes that his analysis of social capital in Britain raises more questions than it resolves. The purpose of this Comment is to clarify these questions as they relate to women and social capital. The objective is not simply to ‘add women and stir’. Rather, a consideration of gender dynamics illuminates key controversies within the wider social capital debate. Peter Hall, ‘Social Capital in Britain', British Journal of Political Science, 29 (1999), 417–61 Virginia Sapiro, ‘Feminist Studies and Political Science – and Vice Versa’, in Anne Phillips, ed., Feminism and Politics (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998), pp. 67–89, at p. 67.

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  • Lowndes, Vivien, 2000. "Women and Social Capital: A Comment on Hall's ‘Social Capital in Britain’," British Journal of Political Science, Cambridge University Press, vol. 30(3), pages 533-537, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:bjposi:v:30:y:2000:i:03:p:533-537_21
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