From Gender to Nation

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The essays in this volume consider the significance of nation and gender in the context of post 1989 transitions in the former Soviet Union and Yugoslavia and in the context of post partition India. The texts critique the way in which narratives of nationhood and womanhood naturalize and essentialize difference and hierarchy. The authors explore uses of sexualized/gendered imagery in defining the space of the nation (e.g. feminized landscapes and battlefields) and sexualized/gendered metaphors of state fatherhood and motherhood in defining the distribution of power within that space. The particular histories of nationalism and partition are different in the countries involved, but commonalities in the narrative structures, state and nation building strategies, patriarchal patterns of control, and mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion are striking. This is particularly so with respect to the ways in which exclusive national identities are constituted through gendered representations of the nation and its members.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Rada Ivekovic

Rada Ivekovic, philosopher, writer and feminist, was born in Zagreb, Yugoslavia, in 1945. She is currently Programme Director at the College international de philosophie, Paris. She has taught at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Paris=8 (Vincennes a Saint Denis) and, previously, at the University of Zagreb, Yugoslavia. She is the author of Le sexe de la nation (2003); Divided Countries, Separated Citites: The Modern Legacy of Partition (ed. with Ghislaine Glasson Deschaumes, 2003); and of Partitions: Reshaping States and Minds (2005), co-edited with S. Bianchini, S. Chaturvedi and R. Samaddar.