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.
Author(s): Tamar Mayer
Edition: 1
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 1999
Language: English
Pages: 376
Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
List of plates......Page 10
List of contributors......Page 11
Acknowledgments......Page 14
Gender ironies of nationalism: setting the stage TAMAR MAYER......Page 16
Spectacular sexuality: nationalism, development and the politics of family planning in Indonesia LESLIE K.DWYER......Page 40
Death of a nation: transnationalism, bodies and abortion in late twentieth-century Ireland ANGELA K.MARTIN......Page 80
Sexing the nation/desexing the body: politics of national identity in the former Yugoslavia JULIE MOSTOV......Page 104
Uneasy images: contested representations of gender, modernity and nationalism in pre-war Liberia MARY H.MORAN......Page 128
~Am I a woman in these matters?~: notes on Sinhala nationalism and gender in Sri Lanka JEANNE MARECEK......Page 154
Native sex: sex rites, land rights and the making of Aboriginal civic culture ELIZABETH A.POVINELLI......Page 178
Kurdish nationalism in Turkey and the role of peasant Kurdish women CIHAN AHMETBEYZADE......Page 202
Calligraphy, gender and Chinese nationalism TAMARA HAMLISH......Page 226
Men's sexuality and women's subordination in Indian nationalisms STEVE DERN......Page 252
Nationalism and Caribbean masculinity LINDEN LEWIS......Page 276
From zero to hero: masculinity in Jewish nationalism TAMAR MAYER......Page 298
Gender, sexuality and the military model of U.S. national community HOLLY ALLEN......Page 324
Angry white men: right exclusionary nationalism and left identity politics ANDREW LIGHT AND WILLIAM CHALOUPKA......Page 344
Index......Page 366
