Women, Ethnicity and Nationalism: The Politics of Transition / Edition 1

by Robert E. Miller, Rick Wilford

Overview

Women, Ethnicity and Nationalism asks whether societies caught in political or social transition provide new opportunities for women, or instead, create new burdens and obstacles for them. Using contemporary case-studies, each author looks at the interaction of gender ethnicity and class in a divided society. The varying experiences of women are discussed in the following countries: Northern Ireland; South Africa; the former Soviet Union and Yugoslavia; Yemen; Lebanon and Malaysia.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415171366
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/18/1998
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)
Lexile:	1460L (what's this?)

About the Author

Robert E. Miller, Rick Wilford

Table of Contents

Notes on contributors, Preface and acknowledgements, Women, ethnicity and nationalism: surveying the ground, Gender and nation, Identity, location, plurality: women, nationalism and Northern Ireland, Gender, nationalism and transformation: difference and commonality in South Africa’s past and present, Women in contemporary Russia and the former Soviet Union, Back to the future: nationalism and gender in post-socialist societies, Women’s rights and political conflict in Yemen 1990–1994, Communal violence, civil war and foreign occupation: women in Lebanon, Islamization and modernization in Malaysia: competing cultural, reassertions and women’s identity in a changing society, Conclusion, Index

Editorial Reviews

Documents how women are disadvantaged by the processes of political transition in countries steeped in old or new nationalist rivalries and by the trumpeted new world order such transitions are heralding. Discusses the situation generally, then presents case studies from such countries as post-apartheid South Africa, Northern Ireland, Yemen, post-Soviet Russia, the former Yugoslavia, and Malaysia. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknew.com)

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