Full Description
This volume offers an empirically rich, theoretically informed study of the shifting intersections of nation/alism, gender and sexuality. Challenging a scholarly legacy that has overly focused on the masculinist character of nationalism, it pays particular attention to the people and issues less commonly considered in the context of nationalist projects, namely women and sexual minorities. Bringing together both established and emerging researchers from across the globe, this multidisciplinary and comparison-rich volume provides a multi-sited exploration of the shifting contours of belonging and Otherness generated by multifarious nationalisms. The diverse, and context specific positionings of men and women, masculinities and femininities, and hegemonic and non-normative sexualities, vis-à-vis nation/alism, are illuminated through a vibrant array of contemporary theoretical lenses. These include historical and feminist institutionalism, post-colonial theory, critical race approaches, transnational and migration theory and semiotics.
Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction; Jon Mulholland, Erin Sanders-Mcdonagh and Nicola Montagna.- Part I - Deploying Sexuality for a Gendered Nationalism.- Chapter 2: Mining, Masculinity and Morality: Understanding the Australian National Imaginary through Iconic Labor; Nick Skilton.- Chapter 3:Inventing a Muscular Global India: History, Masculinity, and Nation in 'Mangal Pandey: The Rising'; Sikata Banerjee; Chapter 4: Homophobia as Geopolitics: 'Traditional Values' and the Negotiation of Russia's Place in the World; Emil Edenborg.- Chapter 5:The Formation of an Israeli Gay 'Counterpublic': Challenging Heteronormative Modes of Masculinity in a 'Nation in Arms'; Yoav Kanyas.- Chapter 6: "Tampering with Society's DNA" or "Making Society Stronger": A Comparative Perspective on Family, Religion and Gay Rights in the Construction of the Nation; Bronwyn Winter.- Part II - Women Supporting Nationalist Movements.- Chapter 7: Women, Gender, and the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party; Margaret Power.- Chapter 8: Overcoming the Nation-State: Women's Autonomy and Radical Democracy in Kurdistan; Dilar Dirik.- Chapter 9: Gendering the 'White Backlash': Islam, Patriarchal 'Unfairness', and the Defense of Women's Rights Amongst Women Supporters of the British National Party; Jon Mulholland.- Chapter 10: Feminism and Nationalism in Québec; Dianne Lamoureux.- Chapter 11: Women's Support for UKIP: Exploring Gender, Nativism, and the Populist Radical Right; Erin Sanders-Mcdonagh.- Part III - Nations, Borders, And The Gendered Signification Of Migration.- Chapter 12: Policing the Intimate Borders of the Nation: a Review of Recent Trends in Family-Related Forms of Immigration Control; Paola Bonizzoni.- Chapter 13: 'Subaltern Victims' or 'Useful Resources'? Migrant Women in the 'Lega Nord' Ideology and Politics; Sara R. Farris and Francesca Scrinzi.- Chapter 14: The Media Framing of Migration in Sending and Receiving Countries: The Case of Romanians Migrating to the UK; Bianca Cheregi.- Chapter 15: The British Nationalist Right and the Gendering of Anti-Migration Politics; Nicola Montagna.- Chapter 16: Narrations of the Nation in Mobility Life Stories: Gendered Scripts, Emotional Spheres and Transnational Performativity in the Greek Diaspora; Anastasia Christou.- Part IV - Institutional Mediations Past and Present: Understanding the Conditions for Women-Friendly Nationalisms.- Chapter 17: 'Gender Diversity' and Nationalisms in Multiple Contexts; Jill Vickers.- Chapter 18: Territorial Autonomy, Nationalisms, and Women's Equality and Rights: The Case of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region; Susan J. Henders.
