| Description |
x, 212 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
1. Women, ethnicity and nationalism: surveying the ground / Rick Wilford -- 2. Gender and nation / Nira Yuval-Davis -- 3. Identity, location, plurality: women, nationalism and Northern Ireland / Elisabeth Porter -- 4. Gender, nationalism and transformation: difference and commonality in South Africa's past and present / Sheila Meintjes -- 5. Women in contemporary Russia and the former Soviet Union / Rosalind Marsh -- 6. Back to the future: nationalism and gender in post-socialist societies / Tanja Rener and Mirjana Ule -- 7. Women's rights and political conflict in Yemen 1990-1994 / Maxine Molyneux -- 8. Communal violence, civil war and foreign occupation: women in Lebanon / Kirsten Schulze -- 9. Islamization and modernization in Malaysia: competing cultural reassertions and women's identity in a changing society / Norani Othman -- 10. Conclusion / Robert L. Miller |
| Summary |
This new study documents the processes of political transition in countries steeped in 'old' nationalist rivalries or which have experienced the 'revival' of ethnic nationalism. Each of the book's contributors describes and explains how recent constructions of national identities disadvantage women in what has been trumpeted as the 'new world order'. An extensive introductory chapter and a discussion of gender, nation and nationalism are followed by case studies on post-apartheid South Africa, Northern Ireland, Yemen, post-Soviet Russia, the former Yugoslavia, the Lebanon and Malaysia. The contributors each challenge the mooted 'newness' of the respective gender orders and identify communities of resistance among women and feminists in the continuing struggle to achieve citizenship |
| Notes |
Bibliography: p202-203. - Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Ethnic relations.
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Nationalism.
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Women -- Political activity.
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Women -- Social conditions.
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| Author |
Miller, Robert L., MA
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| LC no. |
98009381 |
| ISBN |
0415171369 (alk. paper) |
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0415171377 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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