WGS160Y1 Lecture Notes - Cynthia Enloe, Bren Light Machine Gun, Miss Universe Canada
25 Mar 2013
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A common theme women are naturally nurturing and loving and committed to peace, and it is men who are violent and warmongering. Women as symbols of national identity and nationalist struggle. Women as agents in constructing nationalist politics and identities. Challenging violence, challenging militarization and making connections. Benedict anderson: a nation is an imagined community . If a state is a vertical creature of authority, a nation is horizontal creature of identity - cynthia. Women as reproducers of national boundaries (nira yuval-davis) Symbols of national difference: miss universe canada. Vulnerable to co-optation/assimilation: masculinist protection often portrays women and children as vulnerable. - one example us used for invading afghan women was pretence that taliban affected women"s rights. However us helped facilitate taliban >> sexual abuse/defilement of women is way of attacking nation (men could not protect their women) In exam answers focus on context to course terms, direct connection to course.
