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 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.

Utilising Northern Ireland as a case study, this book presents an analysis of the gender and sexual politics of conflict transformation. The book synthesises a vast array of international sources with the author’s empirical and theoretical research to produce a powerful gendered critique of conflict transformation in Northern Ireland. It maps the negative effects of the region’s violent conflict on gender and sexual equality and explores the potential of the conflict transformational processes, set in motion by the 1998 Peace Agreement, to transform relationships between different genders and sexualities. Starting from the feminist proposition that building peace requires the inclusion of issues of gender and sexual equality, the author analyses how the new institutional and semantic structures of conflict transformation in Northern Ireland preserved older conservative narratives about gender and sexuality. As older narratives clashed with progressive forms of sexual and gender politics, the core sites of conflict transformation became arenas of gender and sexual struggles. The book outlines these struggles, and charts the positive and inclusive visions of peace developed by activists throughout the period of conflict transformation. This book will be of much interest to students of gender studies, conflict transformation, ethnic conflict, peace studies and Irish politics.

Virginia Woolf famously wrote 'as a woman I have no country', suggesting that women had little stake in defending countries where they are considered second-class citizens, and should instead be forces for peace. Yet women have been perpetrators as well as victims of violence in nationalist conflicts. This unique book generates insights into the role of gender in nationalist violence by examining feature films from a range of conflict zones. In The Battle of Algiers, female bombers destroy civilians while men dress in women's clothes to prevent the French army from capturing and torturing them. Prisoner of the Mountains shows a Chechen girl falling in love with her Russian captive as his mother tries to rescue him. Providing historical and political context to these and other films, Matthew Evangelista identifies the key role that economic decline plays in threatening masculine identity and provoking the misogynistic violence that often accompanies nationalist wars.

This book sets out to open up the space for interpretation of history and politics in Aceh which is now in a state of armed rebellion against the Indonesian government. It lays out a groundwork for analysing how female agency is constituted in Aceh, in a complex interplay of indigenous matrifocality, Islamic belief and practices, state terror, and political violence. Analysts of the current conflict in Aceh have tended to focus on present events. Siapno provides a historical analysis of power, co-optation, and resistance in Aceh and links it to broader comparative studies of gender, Islam, and the state in Muslim communities throughout the world.

Explores women's roles and contributions in Hindu nationalism and nationalist organizations in the contemporary Indian context.

This volume explores the politics of identity by analysing the intersections between ethnicity, gender and nationalism in developing societies. These markers of identity are not understood as constituting essences, but as springing from people's core experiences, yearnings and strategic life plans in a context where resources are scarce. As such, identities may be, and are, contested. The intersections are traced across three areas: social and cultural reproduction; ideologies, stereotypes and practices; and nationalist politics and discourse which has tended to remove women from the public arena and construct an ideal of women's domesticity.

This book focuses on sex and sexuality in post-war novels from the Anglophone Caribbean. Countering the critical orthodoxy that literature from this period dealt with sex only tangentially, implicitly transmitting sexist or homophobic messages, the author instead highlights the range and diversity in its representations of sexual life. She draws on gender and sexuality studies, postcolonial theory and cultural history to provide new readings of seminal figures like Samuel Selvon and George Lamming whilst also calling attention to the work of innovative, lesser-studied authors such as Andrew Salkey, Oscar Dathorne and Rosa Guy. Offering a coherent and expansive overview of how post-war Caribbean novelists have treated the persistently controversial topic of sex, this book addresses one of the blind spots in Caribbean literary criticism. It mines a range of little-studied archival materials and texts to argue that fiction of the post-war era exhibits both continuities with the sexual emphases of earlier writing and connections to later trends. The author also presents nationalist ideology as central to the literature of this era. It is in the fictional rendering of sexuality that the contradictions of the nationalist project are most apparent; sex both exceeds and threatens the imagined unity on which the political vision depends.