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Record Nr.

UNINA9910815495103321

Titolo

Women, ethnicity and nationalism : the politics of transition / / edited by Rick Wilford and Robert L. Miller

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1998

ISBN

1-134-69548-9

1-134-69549-7

1-280-10467-8

0-203-28597-2

0-203-16958-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

x, 212 p

Altri autori (Persone)

WilfordRick <1947->

MillerRobert L <1948-> (Robert Lee)

Disciplina

305.42

Soggetti

Women - Social conditions

Women - Political activity

Ethnic relations

Nationalism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

chapter 1 Women, ethnicity and nationalism -- Surveying the ground / Rick Wilford -- chapter 2 Gender and nation / Nira Yuval-Davis -- chapter 3 Identity, location, plurality -- Women, nationalism and Northern Ireland / Elisabeth Porter -- chapter 4 Gender, nationalism and transformation -- Difference and commonality in South Africa's past and present -- chapter 5 Women in contemporary Russia and the former Soviet Union / Rosalind Marsh -- chapter 6 Back to the future -- Nationalism and gender in post-socialist societies / Tanja Rener -- chapter 7 Women's rights and political conflict in Yemen 1990-1994 / Maxine Molyneux -- chapter 8 Communal violence, civil war and foreign occupation -- Women in Lebanon -- chapter 9 Islamization and modernization in Malaysia -- Competing cultural reassertions and women's identity in a changing society -- chapter 10 Conclusion / Robert L.Miller.



Sommario/riassunto

Using contemporary case studies, Women, Ethnicity and Nationalism asks whether societies caught in political and social transition provide new opportunties for women or, instead, create new burdens and obstacles for them.