Theorizing Gender and Nation
Women and the Biological Reproduction of the Nation
Cultural Reproduction and Gender Relations
Citizenship and Difference
Gendered Militaries, Gendered Wars
Women, Ethnicity and Empowerment
Towards Transversal Politics
Nira Yuval-Davis is Director of the Research Centre on Migration, Refugees and Belonging (CMRB) at The University of East London.
"I′ve been following Nira Yuval-Davis′ work on issues of race,
ethnicity, class, gender, and nation for some time. This is the
book that we′ve all been waiting for. Gender and Nation spells out
in clear and accessible prose the main ideas of a complex and
vitally important area of feminist scholarship. For far too long,
issues of nationhood, citizenship and the military have been viewed
as male provinces. Turning this literature on its head, Yuval-Davis
demonstrates that issues of gender remain central to nationalist
struggles on both sides of state power. Especially refreshing is
[the book′s] ability to visualize a politics that takes these
contested power relations into account.... a must read."
*Patricia Hill Collins*
"Nira Yuval-Davis carries feminist strategy a bold step forward,
avoiding essentialism, skirting relativism to develop a theory of
′transversal′ alliances between women founded not on diverse
identities but on shared values. In the process, she rewrites the
theory of nationalism. A much-needed book."
*Cynthia Cockburn*
"The question of gender has been systematically neglected in
traditional political science. In Gender and Nation Nira
Yuval-Davis shows how women reproduce nations biologically,
culturally and symbolically. In criticizing the assumptions of the
public/private split, her own argument is intensely personal and
political. An extraordinarily powerful and comprehensive feminist
account of the nation-state, it presents a far-reaching critique of
the gender-blindness of political theory. Gender and Nation is a
major contribution to the expanding field of citizenship studies. A
significant intellectual achievement, it is not a text to be
missed."
*Bryan S. Turner*
"In her eagerly awaited book, Nira Yuval-Davis draws us into an
intense end-of-the-century feminist conversation. Yuval-Davis is
the savvy and worldly thinker I trust to craft the question, sort
out the answers - about the urgent matters of citizenship and
nationalism."
*Cynthia Enloe*
"Available texts on nationalism do not usually relate to women.
Gender and Nation is a timely supplement to the literature....
Essential reading for students of women′s studies, sociology and
politics."
*Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies*
"A comprehensive treatment of key issues which relate to gender,
nation and nationalism. It is an insightful and highly readable
theoretical work which incorporates the most recent literature on
these issues... a useful addition to either individual or combined
courses on the topics of gender, nations and nationalism, race and
ethnicity."
*Sociological Research Online*
"Yuval-Davis′s main argument is that neither ′nation′ nor ′gender′
can be understood separately. She posits several ways in which
women are targeted as ethnic subjects.... a necessary read."
*Feminist Magazine*
"Through this very thorough form of presentation, Yuval-Davis not
only convinces the reader that the gender and nation
inter-relationship is a crucial one, reinforcing the mutual
constructions of each other, but she also manages to highlight the
complexity of their shared bond. The book will be of great value to
those working in the field of international relations theories as
well as to all readers with an interest in gender studies."
*Journal of Peace Research*
"Yuval-Davis addresses both theory and practice starting out with a
discussion of theorising about gender, women, ethnicity and nation,
moving on to a more sustained analysis of how these discourses have
impacted upon women. The analysis then widens as she looks at
cultural reproduction and gender, citizenship, the military and war
before ending up with a final discussion on women, ethnicity and
empowerment.... This is an interesting, readable and thoughtful
book and should be read by everyone interested in nations and
ethnicities."
*Ethnic Conflict Research Digest*
"Cleary written with lively examples, Gender and Nation tackles
nationalism in a way that is sensitive to gender, ethnicity and
other forms of diversity. It is an important research reference and
can be equally well used in graduate and undergraduate
resources."
*Canadian Journal of Political Science*
"Gender and Nation is a very important book, offering sound and
well-suported analysis on the many intersections of gender and
nationalist ideologies."
*Irish Journal of Feminist Studies*
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