Ethnicity, Gender and the Subversion of Nationalism

by Bodil Folke Frederiksen (Editor), Fiona Wilson (Editor)

Overview

This volume explores the politics of identity by analysing the intersections between ethnicity, gender and nationalism in developing societies. These markers of identity are not understood as constituting essences, but as springing from people's core experiences, yearnings and strategic life plans in a context where resources are scarce. As such, identities may be, and are, contested. The intersections are traced across three areas: social and cultural reproduction; ideologies, stereotypes and practices; and nationalist politics and discourse which has tended to remove women from the public arena and construct an ideal of women's domesticity.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781135205737
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	02/04/2014
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	124
File size:	697 KB

About the Author

Fiona Wilson, Bodil Folke Frederiksen

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction: Ethnicity, Gender and the Subversion of Nationalism, Fiona Wilson, Bodil Folke Frederiksen; Chapter 2 Invaded Women: Sex, Race and Class in the Formation of Colonial Society, Verena Stolcke; Chapter 3 Questioning Race and Gender in Post-Colonial Peru, Fiona Wilson; Chapter 4 The Ethnicisation of Politics and the Politicisation of Ethnicity: Culture and Political Development in South Africa, Preben Kaarsholm; Chapter 5 Ethnicity and Gender in Zambia: What Kind of a Relationship?, Karen Tranberg Hansen; Chapter 6 Gender, Ethnicity and Popular Culture in Kenya, Bodil Folke Frederiksen; Chapter 7 Monogamists Sit by the Doorway: Notes on the Construction of Gender, Ethnicity and Rank in Kisii, Western Kenya, Philip Raikes; Chapter 8 Controlled Emancipation: Women and Hindu Nationalism, Thomas Blom Hansen; Chapter 9 One Step Backward, Two Steps Forward: The Establishment of ‘Tribal’ Women's Co-operatives in Bankura District, West Bengal, Neil Webster; Chapter 10 Roots, Routes and Transnational Attractions: Dominican Migration, Gender and Cultural Change, Ninna Nyberg Sørensen;