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Nira Yuval-Davis provides an authoritative overview and critique of writings on gender and nationhood, presenting an original analysis of the ways gender relations affect and are affected by national projects and processes. In Gender and Nation Yuval-Davis argues that the construction of nationhood involves specific notions of both ‘manhood’ and ‘womanhood’. She examines the contribution of gender relations to key dimensions of nationalist projects — the nation's reproduction, its culture and citizenship — as well as to national conflicts and wars, exploring the contesting relations between feminism and nationalism. Gender and Nation is an important contribution to the debates on citizenship, gender and nation.
Gendered Militaries, Gendered Wars
Gendered Militaries, Gendered Wars
Wars, claims Giddens (1989: 340, 346–7), do not exist as such in stateless societies: there is not enough surplus value produced in such societies to sustain systematic and long armed conflicts and militaries. And yet, constructions of manhood and womanhood which are assumed to have arisen in stateless hunter-gatherer societies have been the basis for the naturalization of the gender divisions of labour in militaries and wars. John Casey claimed:
Males were selected for the role of warriors because the economical and physiological sex-linked differences that favoured the selection of men as hunters of animals favoured the selection of men as hunters of people, (quoted in Kazi, 1993: 15)
Moreover, Chris Knight (1991) has argued that men have bonded together ...
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