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.

Nationalism and Gender examines the intersection of gender and nationalism, offering insights into how gender identities influence and are influenced by nationalist ideologies. This book is essential for those interested in the complex relationship between gender and nationalism in political science. Chapters Highlights: - 1: Nationalism and Gender - Introduces key concepts and the intersection of gender and nationalism. - 2: Nationalism - Provides a foundational understanding of nationalism’s history and ideology. - 3: Gender Studies - Explores gender role construction and identities. - 4: Queer - Discusses queer theory and its relevance to nationalism and gender. - 5: Identity Politics - Analyzes how gender identities shape and are shaped by identity politics. - 6: Lesbian Feminism - Investigates lesbian feminism’s role in nationalist movements. - 7: Men's Studies - Examines masculinity within nationalist ideologies. - 8: African Nationalism - Explores gender dynamics within African nationalist contexts. - 9: Queer Nationalism - Looks at how queer identities intersect with nationalism. - 10: Men's Movement - Analyzes the men’s movement’s impact on nationalism. - 11: Ruth Vanita - Reviews Ruth Vanita’s contributions to gender and nationalism studies. - 12: Feminism in International Relations - Examines feminist critiques of nationalist ideologies in international relations. - 13: Bande Mataram (Paris Publication) - Investigates the gendered dimensions of the Bande Mataram publication. - 14: Jasbir Puar - Explores Jasbir Puar’s work on homonationalism. - 15: Feminist Security Studies - Discusses feminist perspectives on nationalism and gender in conflict settings. - 16: Queering - Examines the application of queering to nationalism and gender studies. - 17: Pinkwashing (LGBT) - Investigates the impact of pinkwashing on LGBT identities within nationalism. - 18: Homonationalism - Delves into how nationalist ideologies incorporate LGBT identities. - 19: Necropolitics - Explores necropolitics and its relevance to gender, sexuality, and nationalism. - 20: Queer of Color Critique - Analyzes queer of color critique’s contributions to the study of nationalism and gender. - 21: M. Jacqui Alexander - Discusses M. Jacqui Alexander’s insights into gender, sexuality, and nationalism. This book offers comprehensive insights into the interplay between nationalism and gender, valuable for professionals, students, and those seeking a deeper understanding of the subject.

This volume offers understandings of the relationship between violence and gender from the global to the domestic level. Authors trace the history of feminist antiviolence efforts, theorize the reproduction of symbolic gender violence, and show how violence might be re-conceptualized in comparative and intersectional perspectives.

The twenty-first century is witnessing a truly transnational revival of a very old set of ideas. Despite romantic attachments to old symbols, these late modern nationalism movements are not simply replicas of the previous two waves of nationalism in the 1860s and 1920s. Nor is it true that today's nationalism movements want simply to return to the past and effect a nationalist 1930s-style retrenchment. From Putin's macho revivalism, through to Trump's shocking victory and Xi's strongman regionalism, nationalists engage with the economic context of our time and address issues born of globalization. Crucially, in their vision for international relations they seek the destruction of key international norms in a drive to restore a vision of sovereignty predicated on a survivalist understanding of state power.Global Nationalism, edited and framed by Pablo de Orellana and Nicholas Michelsen, brings together the latest research by up-and-coming early career researchers and scholars. Beginning with a succinct history and typology of contemporary nationalism and its predecessors, this book offers analysis of several cases of contemporary nationalism, examining how specific movements define identity, address grievances and propose identity-based solutions. Key themes and lessons emerge from the study of a variety of cases, from the very ideas animating nationalist thought, to their expression in a wide variety of nationalist movements around the world. The reflections on the ecosystem of nationalist ideas and movements offered in this volume are a vital starting point in the study of contemporary nationalism as a global twenty-first century phenomenon.

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.

Writing on the history of German women has - like women's history elsewhere - undergone remarkable expansion and change since it began in the late 1960s. Today Women's history still continues to flourish alongside gender history but the focus of research has increasingly shifted from women to gender. This shift has made it possible to make men and masculinity objects of historical research too. After more than thirty years of research, it is time for a critical stocktaking of the "gendering" of the historiography on nineteenth and twentieth century Germany. To provide a critical overview in a comparative German-American perspective is the main aim of this volume, which brings together leading experts from both sides of the Atlantic. They discuss in their essays the state of historiography and reflect on problems of theory and methodology. Through compelling case studies, focusing on the nation and nationalism, military and war, colonialism, politics and protest, class and citizenship, religion, Jewish and non-Jewish Germans, the Holocaust, the body and sexuality and the family, this volume demonstrates the extraordinary power of the gender perspective to challenge existing interpretations and rewrite mainstream arguments.

Laura Sjoberg positions gender and gender subordination as key factors in the making and fighting of global conflict. Through the lens ofgender, she examines the meaning, causes, practices, and experiences of war, building a more inclusive approach to the analysis of violent conflict between states. Considering war at the international, state, substate, and individual levels, Sjoberg's feminist perspective elevates a number of causal variables in war decision-making. These include structural gender inequality, cycles of gendered violence, state masculine posturing, the often overlooked role of emotion in political interactions, gendered understandings of power, and states' mistaken perception of their own autonomy and unitary nature. Gendering Global Conflict also calls attention to understudied spaces that can be sites of war, such as the workplace, the household, and even the bedroom. Her findings show gender to be a linchpin of even the most tedious and seemingly bland tactical and logistical decisions in violent conflict. Armed with that information, Sjoberg undertakes the task of redefining and reintroducing critical readings of war's political, economic, and humanitarian dimensions, developing the beginnings of a feminist theory of war.

The Oxford Handbook of Gender and Politics brings to political science an accessible and comprehensive overview of the key contributions of gender scholars to the study of politics, and it shows how these contributions produce a richer understanding of polities and societies.

This fully revised textbook focuses on the major topics of globalization.

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