Writing bodies on the nation for the globe

Eisenstein, Zillah

doi:10.4324/9780203361122_chapter_3

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“…As several authors argue, women do not belong to nations in the same way as men. They are not allowed to decide on issues related to the nation; however, it is women's bodies on which the mythology of nationhood is built, as they narrate the origin of the country (Eisentein et al 2000). These-women's bodies-become instrumental in the delimitation of the nation (Villellas and Villellas 2007).…”

Section: Rethink the Nationmentioning

confidence: 99%

National Projects and Feminism: The Construction of Welfare States through the Analysis of the 8M Manifestos of Progressive and Conservative Political Parties in Spain

Ardoy

Mesa²

2021

Genealogy

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This paper studies the national projects defended by Spanish political parties on the basis of the image they project in relation to women’s roles. To do so, we start with a critical review of nations and welfare states as masculinized projects, and from this we design a strategy based on the analysis of the manifestos issued by each political party in 2020 on International Women’s Day. The results obtained reflect the existence of three different ways of understanding the nation from a gender perspective: the first bloc, formed by the two conservative parties, PP and VOX, reproduces the nation by basing their discourse on gender inequalities, with a great weight of care for women; the second, formed by the most progressive parties (IU and Podemos), is situated in a clearly feminist perspective; the third, formed by the PSOE, shows a mixture of ideas that is reflected in considering both sexes as political subjects of feminism, and in presenting a discourse of the liberal and socialist current.

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Section: Rethink the Nationmentioning

confidence: 99%

National Projects and Feminism: The Construction of Welfare States through the Analysis of the 8M Manifestos of Progressive and Conservative Political Parties in Spain

Ardoy

Mesa²

2021

Genealogy

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“…The gendering of nation and nationalism has historically positioned women as symbolic markers of the nation, rather than as agents and active participants in the political system (Sharp, 1996). This symbolism is also embodied by women through acts of reproduction, as 'mothers of the nation' -where their value, and (at times of heightened nationalism) power, is situated in the reproduction of the wanted citizen rather than the unwanted (and often radicalized and sexualized) 'other' (Yuval-Davis, 1996;Eisenstein, 2000). These forms of biological reproduction also enforce racial, ethnic, and cultural identities through 'us' versus 'them' dichotomies and belief in the biologic 'purity' of particular ('superior') bloodlines.…”

Section: Rawa After Meenamentioning

confidence: 99%

“…(re)politicizing women RAWA's methods for securing the future of its organization, and its national building strategies reflect conservative ideologies for social reproducing of the nation -where women act as 'boundary markers' of the nation through their expected roles as social reproducers (McClintock, 1993;Yuval-Davis, 1996;Eisenstein, 2000). RAWA members mark the boundaries of the nation as both symbolic and active leaders, and through their use of 'classic' social reproductive methods, which redraw the nation's gendered boundaries through its feminist vision.…”

Section: Spatial Exclusion Control and Empowermentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Feminist-Nation Building in Afghanistan: An Examination of the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA)

Fluri

2008

Feminist Review

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Women-led political organizations that employ feminist and nationalist ideologies and operate as separate from, rather than associated with, male-dominated or patriarchal nationalist groups are both significant and under-explored areas of gender, feminist, and nationalism studies. This article investigates the feminist and nationalist vision of the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA). RAWA exemplifies an effective political movement that intersects feminist and nationalist politics, where women are active, rather than symbolic, participants within the organization, and help to shape an ideological construction of the Afghan nation. RAWA subsequently links its struggle for women's rights (through feminism) with its nationalist goals for democracy and secularism. This article also analyses RAWA's use of conservative nationalist methods to reproduce the future of the organization and to develop ‘citizens’ for its idealized nation, while countering existing patriarchal social and familial structures through a re-configuration of women's roles in the family, community, and nation. This inquiry is based on geographic and feminist examinations of RAWA's organizational structure, literature, and political goals obtained through content analyses of RAWA's political literature and through interviews with RAWA members and supporters living as refugees in Pakistan in the summer of 2003 and winter of 2004/05. RAWA is an instructive example of counter-patriarchal and nationalist feminist politics that questions patriarchal definitions of the nation and its citizenry by reconfiguring gender norms and redefining gender relations in the family as a mirror of the nation.

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“…They are given no citizen voice, although they often take it. Instead they create the borders for the fraternal order 54 .…”

Section: Cronulla Revisited/revised -A Year Onmentioning

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The ‘Young Muslim Man’ in Australian Public Discourse

Grewal¹

2007

TfC eJournal

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Through an analysis of two highly mediatised recent events in Australia this article seeks to interrogate the intersections of gender, ethnicity and culture in the construction of Australian national identity. A series of gang rapes in the early 2000s attracted widespread public outrage and the harshest ever condemnation of acts of sexual violence in Australian history. Linked to these events, in December 2005 a series of riots at the Sydney beachside suburb of Cronulla led to further questioning of ethnic relations and the state of Australian multiculturalism within media and political discourses. While many of the responses to the gang rapes and the Cronulla riots have drawn on the language of 'women's rights', a closer look at the discourses suggests a different story. Responses to the gang rapes have often characterised the attacks as being against the Australian community, rather than against individual women. It is also interesting to contrast the outrage surrounding the gang rapes with the general silence regarding the increased racist violence committed against Muslim women in recent times. Furthermore, the linking of the gang rapes with a particular religious/ethnic community can be contrasted with the discourses on the alleged gang rapes involving Australian sporting teams, such as the Bulldogs and more recently the Wests Tigers. Finally the manner in which the events of Cronulla have been recast and linked back to the 'threat' posed by young Muslim/Lebanese/Middle Eastern men to Australian women suggests that ethnicity and gender both play an important and mutually reinforcing role in the construction of Australian national identity.

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Writing bodies on the nation for the globe

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National Projects and Feminism: The Construction of Welfare States through the Analysis of the 8M Manifestos of Progressive and Conservative Political Parties in Spain

National Projects and Feminism: The Construction of Welfare States through the Analysis of the 8M Manifestos of Progressive and Conservative Political Parties in Spain

Feminist-Nation Building in Afghanistan: An Examination of the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA)

The ‘Young Muslim Man’ in Australian Public Discourse

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