| Description |
1 online resource (125 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Ethnicity, Gender and the Subversion of Nationalism; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Introduction: Studies in Ethnicity, Gender and the Subversion of Nationalism; Invaded Women: Sex, Race and Class in the Formation of Colonial Society; Questioning Race and Gender in Post-Colonial Peru; The Ethnicisation of Politics and the Politicisation of Ethnicity: Culture and Political Development in South Africa; Ethnicity and Gender in Zambia: What Kind of a Relationship?; Gender, Ethnicity and Popular Culture in Kenya |
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Monogamists Sit by the Doorway: Notes on the Construction of Gender, Ethnicity and Rank in Kisii, Western KenyaControlled Emancipation: Women and Hindu Nationalism; One Step Backward, Two Steps Forward: The Establishment of 'Tribal' Women's Co-operatives in Bankura District, West Bengal; Roots, Routes, and Transnational Attractions: Dominican Migration, Gender and Cultural Change |
| Summary |
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 ar |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Wilson, Fiona
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| ISBN |
9781135205669 |
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1135205663 |
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