Gender And Nation

Author : Nira Yuval-Davis
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1997-03-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781446240779

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Nira Yuval-Davis provides an authoritative overview and critique of writings on gender and nationhood, presenting an original analysis of the ways gender relations affect and are affected by national projects and processes. In Gender and Nation Yuval-Davis argues that the construction of nationhood involves specific notions of both `manhood' and `womanhood'. She examines the contribution of gender relations to key dimensions of nationalist projects - the nation's reproduction, its culture and citizenship - as well as to national conflicts and wars, exploring the contesting relations between feminism and nationalism. Gender and Nation is an important contribution to the debates on citizenship, gender and nationhood. It will be essential reading for academics and students of women's studies, race and ethnic studies, sociology and political science.

Author : Nira Yuval-Davis
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1997-05-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0803986645

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Gender and Nation by Nira Yuval-Davis Pdf

Yuval-Davis provides both an authoritative critique of the literature on gender and nationhood, and an original analysis of the ways in which gender relations are affected by national projects and processes.

Author : Vanaja Dhruvarajan,Jill Vickers
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0802084737

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Gender, Race, and Nation by Vanaja Dhruvarajan,Jill Vickers Pdf

Dhruvarajan and Vickers call into question feminism's presumed universality of gender analysis, and bring to the foreground the voices of marginalized women in Western society, and of women outside of the western world.

Author : Patrizia Albanese,Professor Department of Sociology Patrizia Albanese
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780802090157

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Mothers of the Nation by Patrizia Albanese,Professor Department of Sociology Patrizia Albanese Pdf

"Comparing nationalist and non-nationalist polities in order to establish how these governments differ in their treatment of women and families, Albanese concludes that the efforts of most ethno-nationalist regimes to return women to their 'natural' place in the home as housewives and mothers have been largely unsuccessful. Policies to this effect have provoked considerable opposition by women's groups and individual women, have often been reversed by subsequent governments, and have had little long-term demographic impact. Mothers of the Nation makes an important contribution to the literature on feminism, nationalism, and social and economic policy within a comparative political context."--Jacket.

Author : Mrinalini Sinha
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Nationalism and feminism
ISBN : 087229143X

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Gender and Nation by Mrinalini Sinha Pdf

Author : Panchali Ray
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000507270

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Women Speak Nation by Panchali Ray Pdf

Women Speak Nation underlines the centrality of gender within the ideological construction of nationalism. The volume locates itself in a rich scholarship of feminist critique of the relationship between political, economic, cultural, and social formations and normative gendered relations to try and understand the cross-currents in contemporary feminist theorizing and politics. The chapters question the gendered depictions of the nation as Hindu, upper caste, middle class, heterosexual, able-bodied Indian mother. The volume also brings together interviews and short essays from practitioners and activists who voice an alternative reimagining of the nation. The book will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of gender, politics, modern South Asian history, and cultural studies.

Author : Jon Mulholland,Nicola Montagna,Erin Sanders-McDonagh
Publisher : Springer
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319766997

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Gendering Nationalism by Jon Mulholland,Nicola Montagna,Erin Sanders-McDonagh Pdf

This volume offers an empirically rich, theoretically informed study of the shifting intersections of nation/alism, gender and sexuality. Challenging a scholarly legacy that has overly focused on the masculinist character of nationalism, it pays particular attention to the people and issues less commonly considered in the context of nationalist projects, namely women and sexual minorities. Bringing together both established and emerging researchers from across the globe, this multidisciplinary and comparison-rich volume provides a multi-sited exploration of the shifting contours of belonging and Otherness generated by multifarious nationalisms. The diverse, and context specific positionings of men and women, masculinities and femininities, and hegemonic and non-normative sexualities, vis-à-vis nation/alism, are illuminated through a vibrant array of contemporary theoretical lenses. These include historical and feminist institutionalism, post-colonial theory, critical race approaches, transnational and migration theory and semiotics.

Author : Yasmeen Abu-Laban
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780774858342

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Gendering the Nation-State by Yasmeen Abu-Laban Pdf

Gendering the Nation-State explores the gendered dimensions of a fundamental organizational unit in social and political science -- the nation-state. Yasmeen Abu-Laban has drawn together work by both high-profile and emerging scholars to rescue gender from the margins of theoretical discussions on the nation, the state, public policy, and citizenship. Contributors bring the insights of feminist analysis to bear on three relationships central to popular and policy discussions in contemporary Canada and beyond: gender and nation, gender and state processes, and gender and citizenship. Gendering the Nation-State employs a comparative framework and builds on three decades of multidisciplinary work. Nuanced and wide-ranging, the collection crosses and challenges physical, theoretical, and disciplinary borders.

Author : Sita Ranchod-Nilsson,Mary Ann Tetreault
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134597277

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Women, States and Nationalism by Sita Ranchod-Nilsson,Mary Ann Tetreault Pdf

Women, States and Nationalism counters this attitude and examines the many and contradictory ways in which women negotiate their places in 'the nation'. The volume includes theoretical essays that explore the multiple ways in which the very concept of 'nation' is based upon notions of family, sexuality and gender power which are often overlooked of downplayed by 'male-stream' scholarship. It gathers together an outstanding panel of feminist scholars and area studies specialists, who, through a series of focused case studies, analyse diverse issues which include; *gender and sectarian conflict in Northern Ireland *the paradox of Israeli women soldiers *women, civic duty and the military in the USA *the Hindu Right in India *power, agency and representation in Zimbabwe *political identity and heterosexism. This timely volume is a highly valuable resource for students and scholars of Nationalism, Internationalism Studies and Women's Studies.

Author : Tamar Mayer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781134716005

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Gender Ironies of Nationalism by Tamar Mayer Pdf

This book provides a unique social science reading on the construction of nation, gender and sexuality and on the interactions among them. It includes international case studies from Indonesia, Ireland, former Yugoslavia, Liberia, Sri Lanka, Australia, the USA, Turkey, China, India and the Caribbean. The contributors offer both the masculine and feminine perspective, exposing how nations are comprised of sexed bodies, and exploring the gender ironies of nationalism and how sexuality plays a key role in nation building and in sustaining national identity. The contributors conclude that control over access to the benefits of belonging to the nation is invariably gendered; nationalism becomes the language through which sexual control and repression is justified masculine prowess is expressed and exercised. Whilst it is men who claim the prerogatives of nation and nation building it is, for the most part, women who actually accept the obligation of nation and nation building.

Author : Caren Kaplan,Norma Alarcón,Minoo Moallem
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0822323222

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Between Woman and Nation by Caren Kaplan,Norma Alarcón,Minoo Moallem Pdf

An examination of nationalism and gender.

Author : Himani Bannerji
Publisher : Canadian Scholars’ Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1551301725

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The Dark Side of the Nation by Himani Bannerji Pdf

These feminist Marxist and anti-racist essays speak to important political issues. Though they begin from experiences of non-white people living in Canada, they provide a critical theoretical perspective capable of exploring similar issues in other western and also third world countries. This reading of 'difference' includes but extends beyond the cultural and the discursive into political economy, state, and ideology. It cuts through conventional paradigms of current debates on multiculturalism. In particular, these essays take up the notion of 'Canada' - as the nation and the state - as an unsettled ground of contested hegemonies. They particularly draw attention to how the state of Canada is an unfinished one, and how the discourse of culture helps it to advance the legitimation claim which is needed by any state, especially one arising in a colonial context, with unsolved nationality problems. The myth of the 'two founding peoples', anglos and francophones, has always conveniently ignored the reality of First Nations. who may have a history of being indentured and politically marginalised and only begin struggling for political enfranchisement in their new homeland.

Author : Andrea Germer,Vera Mackie,Ulrike Wöhr
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317667155

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Gender, Nation and State in Modern Japan by Andrea Germer,Vera Mackie,Ulrike Wöhr Pdf

Gender, Nation and State in Modern Japan makes a unique contribution to the international literature on the formation of modern nation–states in its focus on the gendering of the modern Japanese nation-state from the late nineteenth century to the present. References to gender relations are deeply embedded in the historical concepts of nation and nationalism, and in the related symbols, metaphors and arguments. Moreover, the development of the binary opposition between masculinity and femininity and the development of the modern nation-state are processes which occurred simultaneously. They were the product of a shift from a stratified, hereditary class society to a functionally-differentiated social body. This volume includes the work of an international group of scholars from Japan, the United States, Australia and Germany, which in many cases appears in English for the first time. It provides an interdisciplinary perspective on the formation of the modern Japanese nation–state, including comparative perspectives from research on the formation of the modern nation–state in Europe, thus bringing research on Japan into a transnational dialogue. This volume will be of interest in the fields of modern Japanese history, gender studies, political science and comparative studies of nationalism.

Author : Sikata Banerjee
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317226123

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Gender, Nation and Popular Film in India by Sikata Banerjee Pdf

Interpretations of manhood have unfolded in India within a middle class cultural milieu shaped by an assertive self-confidence fuelled by liberalisation, a process by which India has been integrated into the global political economy and the prominence of Hindutva or Hindu nationalist politics. This book unpacks a particular gendered vision of nation in the modern Indian context by drawing on popular films. This muscular nationalism is an intersection of a specific vision of masculinity with the political doctrine of nationalism. The idea of nation is animated by an idea of manhood associated with martial prowess, muscular strength and toughness, but coupled with the image and construct of virtuous woman – a gendered binary of martial man and chaste woman. The author skilfully and convincingly draws together issues of political economy, including globalization and neoliberalism with majoritarian politics and popular culture, thus showing how disparate strands intersect and build on each other. Using interpretive methodologies and popular media, the book presents new interpretations of Bollywood films through the lenses of gender, masculinity and nationalism. It will be of interest to scholars of South Asian politics and culture, in particular Indian nationalism, popular culture, media and gender studies.

Author : Neloufer De Mel
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0742518078

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Women & the Nation's Narrative by Neloufer De Mel Pdf

This book explores the development of nationalism in Sri Lanka during the past century, particularly within the dominant Sinhala Buddhist and militant Tamil movements. Tracing the ways women from diverse backgrounds have engaged with nationalism, Neloufer de Mel argues that gender is crucial to an understanding of nationalism and vice versa. Traversing both the colonial and postcolonial periods in Sri Lanka's history, the author assesses a range of writers, activists, political figures, and movements almost completely unknown in the West. With her rigorous, historically located analyses, de Mel makes a persuasive case for the connections between figures like actress Annie Boteju and art historian and journalist Anil de Silva; poetry whether written by Jean Arasanayagam or Tamil revolutionary women; and political movements like the LTTE, the JVP, the Mother's Front, and contemporary feminist organizations. Evaluating the colonial period in light of the violence that animates Sri Lanka today, de Mel proposes what Bruce Robbins has termed a 'lateral cosmopolitanism' that will allow coalitions to form and to practice an oppositional politics of peace. In the process, she examines the gendered forms through which the nation and the state both come together and pull apart. The breadth of topics examined here will make this work a valuable resource for South Asianists as well as for scholars in a wide range of fields who choose to consider the ways in which gender inflects their areas of research and teaching.