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Gender and Nation
- Nira Yuval-Davis - University of East London, UK
April 1997 | 168 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd
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.
Theorizing Gender and Nation
Women and the Biological Reproduction of the Nation
Cultural Reproduction and Gender Relations
Citizenship and Difference
Gendered Militaries, Gendered Wars
Women, Ethnicity and Empowerment
"Gender and Nation is a very important book, offering sound and well-suported analysis on the many intersections of gender and nationalist ideologies."
