Gender Ironies of Nationalism - Sexing the Nation (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	October 1999
First published:	2000
Editors:	Tamar Mayer
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 14mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	380
ISBN-13:	978-0-415-16255-5
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political ideologies > Nationalism
LSN:	0-415-16255-6
Barcode:	9780415162555

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