WGS 325 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Nuclear Family, Masculinity, Metonymy
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How are nation and the study of gender related interdependence. Assumption that feminism has the ability to transcend the nation. Third world: feminism and anticolonial nationalism happen at the same time. Gender and nations are constructed around ideological systems of difference . The nation: limited imagined communities, nationalism, nationstate, citizenship, national identity, nation-state is a difficult term. Stateless nations and nationless states: how nations arise, feminist scholarship has usefully pushed the analysis of the invented" character of the nation to demonstrate its reliance on the discourse of gender. If nations are not neutral then their self-representation through gendered language and imagery are significant. This requires an explanation: women carry a cultures honor and responsible for reproduction of said culture. They cannot be marginalized easily from cultural analysis of the nation: imperial influence via colonization, anticolonial nationalism. Gender is center of analysis of the nation.
