Gender, Race and National Identity


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This book examines links between gender, race and national identity by analyzing a range of mass-mediated and pop-cultural ‘texts’ in four nations: Australia, Japan, the United Kingdom and the USA.




Diversity


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Examines problems of race, gender and cultural identity, from a European perspective. Looks at government policies and schemes designed to ensure diversity, from multiculturalism to positive action.




National Identity and Democratic Prospects in Socialist China


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This analysis of every facet of a national identity makes it less likely that the next great explosion in the Commmunist world - and its consequences - will come as a surprise. It investigates tendencies in China that might lead it down the same path as Russia and Yugoslavia.




Regions of Identity


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Examining turn-of-the-century American women's fiction, the author argues that this writing played a crucial role in the production of a national fantasy of a unified American identity in the face of the racial, regional, ethnic, and sexual divisions of the period. Contributing to New Americanist perspectives of nation formation, the book shows that these writers are central to American literary discourses for reconfiguring the relationship among constituent regions in order to reconfigure the nation itself. Analyzing fiction by Sarah Orne Jewett, Florence Converse, Pauline Hopkins, María Amparo Ruiz de Burton, Kate Chopin, and Sui Sin Far, the book foregrounds the ways each writer's own location on the grid of American identities shapes her attempt to forge an inclusive narrative of America. This disparate group of writers--Northerners, Southerners, Californios, African Americans, Chinese Americans, Anglo Americans, heterosexuals, and lesbians--reflects the widespread nature of concerns over national identity and the importance of regions to representations of that identity. The author argues that femininity as a politicized cultural construct is basic to each of these author's attempts to recast America, because each understands the link between true womanhood and the longstanding equation of New England with the nation. But such attempts to mobilize the naturalized feminine to stabilize a fractured and exclusionary American identity inevitably reveal the fissures that undermine the universality of both categories. The book thus participates in several larger and ongoing conversations within American studies and feminist literary and genre criticism: the reassessment of regional and minor fiction in relation to national identity, the critique of the politics of genre construction, the uses and limits of identity politics, and the connections among all these issues.




Nationalism and Gender


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Nationalism and Gender examines the intersection of gender and nationalism, offering insights into how gender identities influence and are influenced by nationalist ideologies. This book is essential for those interested in the complex relationship between gender and nationalism in political science. Chapters Highlights: - 1: Nationalism and Gender - Introduces key concepts and the intersection of gender and nationalism. - 2: Nationalism - Provides a foundational understanding of nationalism’s history and ideology. - 3: Gender Studies - Explores gender role construction and identities. - 4: Queer - Discusses queer theory and its relevance to nationalism and gender. - 5: Identity Politics - Analyzes how gender identities shape and are shaped by identity politics. - 6: Lesbian Feminism - Investigates lesbian feminism’s role in nationalist movements. - 7: Men's Studies - Examines masculinity within nationalist ideologies. - 8: African Nationalism - Explores gender dynamics within African nationalist contexts. - 9: Queer Nationalism - Looks at how queer identities intersect with nationalism. - 10: Men's Movement - Analyzes the men’s movement’s impact on nationalism. - 11: Ruth Vanita - Reviews Ruth Vanita’s contributions to gender and nationalism studies. - 12: Feminism in International Relations - Examines feminist critiques of nationalist ideologies in international relations. - 13: Bande Mataram (Paris Publication) - Investigates the gendered dimensions of the Bande Mataram publication. - 14: Jasbir Puar - Explores Jasbir Puar’s work on homonationalism. - 15: Feminist Security Studies - Discusses feminist perspectives on nationalism and gender in conflict settings. - 16: Queering - Examines the application of queering to nationalism and gender studies. - 17: Pinkwashing (LGBT) - Investigates the impact of pinkwashing on LGBT identities within nationalism. - 18: Homonationalism - Delves into how nationalist ideologies incorporate LGBT identities. - 19: Necropolitics - Explores necropolitics and its relevance to gender, sexuality, and nationalism. - 20: Queer of Color Critique - Analyzes queer of color critique’s contributions to the study of nationalism and gender. - 21: M. Jacqui Alexander - Discusses M. Jacqui Alexander’s insights into gender, sexuality, and nationalism. This book offers comprehensive insights into the interplay between nationalism and gender, valuable for professionals, students, and those seeking a deeper understanding of the subject.




Distinct Identities


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The second edition of Distinct Identities continues to provide a sophisticated yet accessible introduction to the complexities of the politics, social structures, and cultural contexts that animate how women of color engage in and shape U.S. politics. Keeping the structure of the original volume, this text represents the diverse and innovative scholarship being conducted in this field while covering the core topics in gender politics. What’s New: Chapters on queer women of color and the role of women of color and social movements. Chapters on the strategies that women of color use to run for office, where they run, political newcomers (Asian and Indigenous women). Chapters on the experiences of women of color office holders. Chapters on policy analysis and the media’s role in shaping the political agenda of women of color political elites. Distinct Identities pushes the boundaries of traditional intersectional scholarship and responds to America’s rapidly diversifying demographics and political culture. It reflects cutting-edge scholarship and provides readers with insight into where the field of women of color politics will head in the coming years.




Invisible No More


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“A passionate, incisive critique of the many ways in which women and girls of color are systematically erased or marginalized in discussions of police violence.” —Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow Invisible No More is a timely examination of how Black women, Indigenous women, and women of color experience racial profiling, police brutality, and immigration enforcement. By placing the individual stories of Sandra Bland, Rekia Boyd, Dajerria Becton, Monica Jones, and Mya Hall in the broader context of the twin epidemics of police violence and mass incarceration, Andrea Ritchie documents the evolution of movements centered around women’s experiences of policing. Featuring a powerful forward by activist Angela Davis, Invisible No More is an essential exposé on police violence against WOC that demands a radical rethinking of our visions of safety—and the means we devote to achieving it.




Diana and Beyond


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The death of Princess Diana unleashed an international outpouring of grief, love, and press attention virtually unprecedented in history. Yet the exhaustive effort to link an upper class white British woman with "the people" raises questions. What narrative of white femininity transformed Diana into a simultaneous signifier of a national and global popular? What ideologies did the narrative tap into to transform her into an idealized woman of the millennium? Why would a similar idealization not have appeared around a non-white, non-Western, or immigrant woman? Raka Shome investigates the factors that led to this defining cultural/political moment and unravels just what the Diana phenomenon represented for comprehending the relation between white femininity and the nation in postcolonial Britain and its connection to other white female celebrity figures in the millennium. Digging into the media and cultural artifacts that circulated in the wake of Diana's death, Shome investigates a range of theoretical issues surrounding motherhood and the production of national masculinities, global humanitarianism, transnational masculinities, the intersection of fashion and white femininity, and spirituality and national modernity. Her analysis explores how images of white femininity in popular culture intersect with issues of race, gender, class, sexuality, and transnationality in the performance of Anglo national modernities. Moving from ideas on the positioning of privileged white women in global neoliberalism to the emergence of new formations of white femininity in the millennium , Diana and Beyond fearlessly explains the late princess's never-ending renaissance and ongoing cultural relevance.