Gender And National Identity

Author : Valentine Moghadam
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1994-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 185649246X

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Gender and National Identity by Valentine Moghadam Pdf

Gender politics exist inevitably in all Islamist movements that expect women to assume the burden of a largely male-defined tradition. Even in secular political movements in the Muslim world - notably those anti-colonial national liberation movements where women were actively involved- women have experiences since independence a general reversal of the gains made. This collection, written by women from the countries concerned, explores the gender dynamics of a variety of political movements with very different trajectories to reveal how nationalism, revolution and Islamization are all gendered processes. The authors explore women's experiences in the Algerian national liberation movement and more recently the fundamentalist FIS; similarly their involvement in the struggle to construct a Bengali national identity and independent Bangladeshi state; the events leading to the overthrow of the Shah and subsequent Islamization of Iran; revolution and civil war in Afghanistan; and the Palestinian Intifada. This book argues that in periods of rapid political change, women in Muslim societies are in reality central to efforts to construct a national identity.

Author : Jackie Hogan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2008-08-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134174065

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Gender, Race and National Identity by Jackie Hogan Pdf

This book examines links between gender, race and national identity by analyzing a range of mass-mediated and pop-cultural ‘texts’ in four nations: Australia, Japan, the United Kingdom and the USA.

Author : Helena Goscilo,Andrea Lanoux
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105114542462

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Gender and National Identity in Twentieth-century Russian Culture by Helena Goscilo,Andrea Lanoux Pdf

Combining concepts and methodologies from anthropology, history, linguistics, literature, music, cultural studies, and film studies, this collection of ten original essays addresses issues crucial to gender and national identity in Russia from the October Revolution of 1917 to the present. Collectively, these interdisciplinary essays explore how traditional gender inequities influenced the social processes of nation building in Russia and how men and women responded to those developments. Available in both clothbound and paperback editions, Gender and National Identity in Twentieth-Century Russian Culture offers fresh insights to students and scholars in the fields of gender studies, nationhood studies, and Russian history, literature, and culture.

Author : Ana Bravo-Moreno
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 3039101560

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Migration, Gender and National Identity by Ana Bravo-Moreno Pdf

This book examines the effects of international migration on the shaping of national and gender identities of Spanish women who migrated to the UK between the 1940s and the 1990s from different socio-economic, educational backgrounds and generations. It explores the dynamics between the power of social institutions and women's agency in shaping their identities in two different countries: Spain and the UK. In looking at individuals' formation of identities, the complexity of the social sites of different social classes, educational attainments and generations, is illuminated. This study looks at how gender and nation are appropriated in women's accounts and how representations of gender and nation relate to other significant social phenomena. Differences in empirical realities are mirrored in respondents' accounts. In examining their lives, this study shows the tension between the power of institutions, which were created under particular historical, economic and social conditions, and women's appropriation of institutional discourses in their identities. This book argues throughout that while it is important not to ignore the power of political and economic forces and history as contributors to women's formation of identities, it is at least as important to think of identity as an individual appropriation and creation of individual meanings.

Author : Feride Acar,Günes-Ayate
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004492028

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Gender and Identity Construction by Feride Acar,Günes-Ayate Pdf

This volume deals with issues and problems of national and gender identity in Central Asia, the Caucasus and Turkey. Articles discuss experiences and position of women vis-à-vis state intervention, economic, political and cultural change, in both public and private spheres of life. In the book the real life conditions and experiences of women are analyzed on three complementary levels. The first of these is the economic and institutional circumstances shaped by structural adjustment policies, globalization and transnational policies. The second is realities of everyday life, particularly pertaining to family, religion, tradition and education. The third level is that of politics and ideology where national and nationalist discourses often build on the gender identity shaped by the economic and social levels. The book does not only present a cross cultural analysis of women's position in the region but also reflects the varied perspectives of female scholars from many different countries and disciplines.

Author : Dr Michele Cohen,Michele Cohen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2002-01-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134842209

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Fashioning Masculinity by Dr Michele Cohen,Michele Cohen Pdf

The fashioning of English gentlemen in the eighteenth century was modelled on French practices of sociability and conversation. Michele Cohen shows how at the same time, the English constructed their cultural relations with the French as relations of seduction and desire. She argues that this produced anxiety on the part of the English over the effect of French practices on English masculinity and the virtue of English women. By the end of the century, representing the French as an effeminate other was integral to the forging of English, masculine national identity. Michele Cohen examines the derogation of women and the French which accompanied the emergent 'masculine' English identity. While taciturnity became emblematic of the English gentleman's depth of mind and masculinity, sprightly conversation was seen as representing the shallow and inferior intellect of English women and the French of both sexes. Michele Cohen also demonstrates how visible evidence of girls' verbal and language learning skills served only to construe the female mind as inferior. She argues that this perception still has currency today.

Author : Lucy Noakes
Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1350183164

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War and the British: Gender and National Identity, 1939-91 by Lucy Noakes Pdf

Author : Wendy Webster
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Emigration and immigration
ISBN : 9781857283518

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Imagining Home by Wendy Webster Pdf

This study critically explores the lives of women in Britain during the immediate postwar period 1945-64, and re-examines the current conception of the 1950s as a nadir for women - when the values of domesticity and motherhood were paramount.

Author : Wendy Webster
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2022-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000685039

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Imagining Home by Wendy Webster Pdf

Imagining Home: Gender, Race and National Identity, 1945-1964 is a powerful examination of ideas and images of home in Britain during a period of national decline and loss of imperial power. Exploring the legacy of empire in imaginings of the nation during a period of decolonization after 1945, it is has become one of the outstanding books about the relationship between gender, race and national identity. Analyzing the role of colonialism and racism in shaping ideas of motherhood, employment and domesticity, it brilliantly traces the way in which Englishness became associated with domestic order and the very idea of home became white, exploring themes that reverberate strongly today as arguments around gender, race and feminism occupy the headlines. Drawing extensively on oral history and life-writing of politicians, journalists, churchmen, health professionals, novelists and film-makers, Wendy Webster examines the multiple meanings of home to women in narratives of belonging and unbelonging. Its focus on the complex interrelationships of white and black women's lives and identities offers a compelling new perspective on this period. This Routledge Classics edition includes a new Preface by the author.

Author : Laura Dixon
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000372168

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Gender, Sexuality and National Identity in the Lives of British Lifestyle Migrants in Spain by Laura Dixon Pdf

This book takes an intimate look at the lives of British migrants in Sitges, an affluent coastal tourist town in Northern Spain and investigates ideas of gender, sexuality, and national identity as they are brought to life through the voices of British lifestyle migrants. Situating Sitges as a specifically affluent and "middle-class" location representing a particular form of "lifestyle migration," this rich and detailed study explores how the experiences of British migrants re-inscribe culturally specific understandings of the relationship between space, place, culture and identity. What ultimately emerges is an account of the complex structural constraints of identity, as British migrants find themselves stuck within the stereotype of badly-behaved Brits Abroad and entangled in highly conservative conceptualisations of gender and sexuality, that leave them unable to live the kind of cosmopolitan lifestyles that they so purposefully sought. This is a fascinating study suitable for researchers in gender and sexuality studies, tourism, sociology, and anthropology.

Author : Deborah Fahy Bryceson,Judith Okely,Jonathan Meir Webber
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1845451627

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Identity and Networks by Deborah Fahy Bryceson,Judith Okely,Jonathan Meir Webber Pdf

Contrary to the negative assessments of the social order that have become prevalent in the media since 9/11, this collection of essays focuses on the enormous social creativity being invested as collective identities are reconfigured. It emphasizes on the reformulation of ethnic and gender relationships and identities in public life.

Author : Ukpokolo, Chinyere
Publisher : Spears Media Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2016-02-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781942876076

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Being and Becoming by Ukpokolo, Chinyere Pdf

This book illuminates the complex and constantly shifting social and cultural dynamics that shape people's identity. Specifically, the volume focuses on the intersections of gender with, culture and identity, and at different historical epochs; on the way men and women define themselves and are defined by diverse peoples and cultures across time and space in sub-Saharan Africa. The discussions presented in this anthology primarily focus on 'being' as 'a state' or 'condition', defined by sex identity, and how this identity shifts, and hence 'becoming', assuming diverse meanings in disparate societies, contexts, and time. The discourse, therefore, moves from how the perception of the self in cultural and historical contexts has informed actions and at some other times shaped interpretations given to historical facts, to how changing economic realities also shape the definitions and constructions of social and relational issues in Sub-Saharan Africa. The historical trajectories of Islamic religion, colonialism and Christian missionary activities in sub-Saharan Africa have shaped the worlds of the peoples of the region and impacted on gender relations.

Author : Lahra Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781107035317

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Making Citizens in Africa by Lahra Smith Pdf

This book provides a study of contemporary politics in Ethiopia through an empirical focus on language policy, citizenship, ethnic identity, and gender. It is unique in its focus not only on the political institutions of Ethiopia and the history of the country but in that it studies these subjects at the intersection of both modern and historical time periods. In particular, it argues that meaningful citizenship, which is much more than the legal state of being a citizen, is a process of citizens and the state negotiating the practice of citizenship. Therefore, it puts the citizen back at the forefront of the process of expanding citizenship, suggesting the ways that citizens support, resist, and affect state policy on political rights.

Author : Leslie Ann Jeffrey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Gender identity
ISBN : UOM:39015051770165

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Sex and Borders by Leslie Ann Jeffrey Pdf

Author : Katie Pickles
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 0719063906

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Female Imperialism and National Identity by Katie Pickles Pdf

Through a study of the British Empire's largest women's patriotic organisation, formed in 1900, and still in existence, this book examines the relationship between female imperialism and national identity. It throws new light on women's involvement in imperialism; on the history of 'conservative' women's organisations; on women's interventions in debates concerning citizenship and national identity; and on the history of women in white settler societies. After placing the IODE (Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire) in the context of recent scholarly work in Canadian, gender, imperial history and post-colonial theory, the book follows the IODE's history through the twentieth century. Tracing the organisation into the postcolonial era, where previous imperial ideas are outmoded, it considers the transformation from patriotism to charity, and the turn to colonisation at home in the Canadian North.