Unique in its approach, this collection of essays examines property relations, moral regulations pertaining to gender, and nationalism in India, Kurdistan, Ireland, and Finland. Structured around six case studies, the contributors combine an analysis of gender with a dialectical examination of class and patriarchy to reveal how these relations have become constructed in recent nationalist movements.
Offering an alternative to post-colonial and post-structuralist formulations of gender and nationalism, the volume highlights the connections and convergences in matters of property, propriety, and gender among ideologically similar nationalist movements, and shows how ideological similarities and differences need to be understood prior to analysing the gender symbolism and patriarchal relations of nationalist histories.
Authors
Judy Whitehead Judy, Himani Bannerji, Shahrzad Mojab, Judith Whitehead
- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 305.42
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 21
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- ISBN
- 9781442678002 0802043801
- LCCN
- HQ1236
- LCCN Item number
- O32 2001eb
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- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- CaOTU
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (xii, 244 p.)
- Published in
- Canada
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- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)thg00600564 (OCoLC)666911000 (CaOOCEL)418164
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- Mode of access: World Wide Web
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- CaOTU
Table of Contents
- Contents 8
- Acknowledgments 10
- Contributors 12
- Introduction 16
- Pygmalion Nation: Towards a Critique of Subaltern Studies and the 'Resolution of the Women's Question' 47
- Contesting Positions in Nationalist Ideologies in Pre-Independence Ireland 98
- Conflicting Loyalties: Nationalism and Gender Relations in Kurdistan 129
- Measuring Women's Value: Continuity and Change in the Regulation of Prostitution in Madras Presidency, 1860-1947 166
- Gender and Ethnic Overlap/p in the Finnish Kalevala 195
- Wifehood, Widowhood, and Adultery: Female Sexuality, Surveillance, and the State in Eighteenth-Century Maharastra 236