Gender Ironies of Nationalism

Sexing the Nation
Erscheinungsjahr 1999
ISBN: 978-0-415-16255-5
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 380 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 508 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mayer, Tamar

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Nationalismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1 Gender ironies of nationalism, Tamar Mayer; Chapter 2 Spectacular sexuality, Leslie K. Dwyer; Chapter 3 Death of a nation, Angela K. Martin; Chapter 4 Sexing the nation/desexing the body, Julie Mostov; Chapter 5 Uneasy images, Mary H. Moran; Chapter 6 “Am I a woman in these matters?”, Jeanne Marecek; Chapter 7 Native sex, Elizabeth A. Povinelli; Chapter 8 Kurdish nationalism in Turkey and the role of peasant Kurdish women, Cihan Ahmetbeyzade; Chapter 9 Calligraphy, gender and Chinese nationalism, Tamara Hamlish; Chapter 10 Men’s sexuality and women’s subordination in Indian nationalisms, Steve Derné; Chapter 11 Nationalism and Caribbean masculinity, Linden Lewis; Chapter 12 From zero to hero, Tamar Mayer; Chapter 13 Gender, sexuality and the military model of U.S. national community, Holly Allen; Chapter 14 Angry white men, Andrew Light, William Chaloupka;

Über Autor(innen)

Tamar Mayer is Professor of Geography at Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont. USA.