Women, ethnicity and nationalism

About this book

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.