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Parker, Andrew, et al, eds. Nationalisms and Sexualities. NY: Routledge, 1992.
*Mohanty, et al, eds. Third World Women and the Politics of Feminism. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1991.
*Sharp, Joanne P. "Gendering Nationhood: a feminist engagement with national identity." Bodyspace. Ed. Nancy Duncan. NY: Routledge, 1996.
*Walby, Sylvia. "Woman
and Nation." Mapping the Nation.
Ed. Gopal Balakrishnan. Introd. Benedict Anderson. NY: Verso, 1996: 235-54.
--deals with nation's exploitation of women;
--considers women as consumers, as global political actors, as commodities. --major argument: "relations between governments depend not only on capital and weaponry, but also on the control of women as symbols, consumers, workers and emotional comforters."(e.g. sexism in tourism [on the beach], colonialism, in the army [base], in diplomacy, international trade, third-world industry and domestic services.) --the cover says the book "shows how thousands of women tailor their marriage to fit the demands of state secrecy; how foreign policy would grind to a halt without secretaries to handle money transfers and arms shipmetnts; and how women are working in hotels and factories around the world in order to service their governments' debts." |
--collection of essays under four sections: (those with * have to do
with nation)
I. "Power, Representation, and Feminist Critique" with essays focusing on questions of theory, culture, and the politics of representation... II. *"Public Policy, the State, and Ideologies of Gender"addresses political, economic, and ideological constructions of racialized womanhood in the context of the relations of rule of the state. III. *"National Liberation and Sexual Politics" contains two essays which present more or less opposite positions on the relation of nationalism and sexuality: Angela Gilliam argues against what she refers to as the sexualism of certain Western feminist perspectives on women's liberation, while Evelyne Accad foregrounds the contradictions inherent in national liberation movements which are built on masculinist assumptions about war and sexuality. IV. "Race, Identity, and Feminist Struggles" focuses on questions of identity and feminist practice. (40-41) --Third World defined geographically. "Third world
refers to the colonized, neocolonized or decoloniaed countries (of Asia,
Africa, and Latin America) whose economic and political structures have
been deformed within the colonial process, and to black, Asian, Latino,
and indigenous peoples in North America Europe, and Australia. ...The term
third world is a form of self-empowerment. However, the unproblematized
use of a term such as third world women would suggest the equation
of struggles and experiences of different groups of women, thus flattening
and depoliticizing all internal hierarchies." (ix-x)
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«ÂI-differential integration/involvement of women into national
projects
¢Ï¡O¤ºØ½×ÂI (p. 235-36)¡Gcitizenship/ethnic/national/'race' relations---gender a. b. ¤£¬Û¼vÅT c. ¤k©Ê¨üÂù«À£¢ d. ©Ê§O¹º¤À¦]°ê/ºØ±Ú¦Ó²§ e. ¤¬¬Û¼vÅT ¢Ð¡O¤k©Ê¥[¤J°ê®a«Øºcªº¤ºØ¤è¦¡(p. 236)-Anthias and Yuval-Davis
[§åµû¡G1. Emphasis placed on cultural and ideological levels,
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(«e´£¡Gnation formations and the importance of family as an
ISA)-gendered constructions of nations and national citizens
"...the nation is embodied within each man and each man comes to embody the nation. This is the horizontal fraternity to which Anderson refers.... Women are not equal to the nation but symbolic of it. Many nations are figuratively female... In the national imaginary, women are mothers of the nation or vulnerable citizens to be protected."(99) During the communist period, the primary division in society was not public/private per se but a division 'between public' (mendacious, ideological0 and private (dignified, truthful ) discourses'. 1. full employment, not a sign of liberation 2. family (free space) in contrast to the state-this tend to deflect attention away from power dynamics operating within the family. The present: 3. women are blamed for social problems. ...This attitude legitimates women's return to the domestic sphere ...
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---, et al, eds. Questions of Cultural Identity. London: Sage, 1996.
Gilroy, Paul "'It ain't where you're from it's where you're at' The
dialectics of diasporic identification'. Third Text 13 (Winter):
3-16.
Three theses: