Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
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 nation
Synopsis
Exploring gender relations and the ways they affect and are affected by national projects and processes, Nira Yuval-Davis argues that the constructions of nationhood usually involve specific notions of both aemanhoodAE and aewomanhood, AE although their explicit inclusion in the analytical discourse around nations and nationalisms is only a very recent endeavor. She promotes this analytical project by examining systematically the crucial contribution of gender relations into several major dimensions of nationalist projectsunational reproduction, national culture, citizenship, as well as national conflicts and wars. The author sharply differentiates national projects from aenation-statesAE and she emphasizes that membership on aenationsAE can be sub-, super-, and cross-states. Gender and Nation is an important contribution to the debates on citizenship, gender, and nationhood. Gender and Nation will be essential reading for academics and students of womenAEs studies, race and ethnic studies, sociology, and political studies.
Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. [135]-148) and index.