Gendering the Nation-State: Canadian and Comparative Perspectives

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Gendering the Nation-State

Canadian and Comparative Perspectives

Edited by: Yasmeen Abu-Laban

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2009

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Serious study of scoial and political life must attend to gender as a category of analysis. Gendering the Nation-State explores the gendered dimensions of a fundamental organizational unit in social and political science: the nation-state. Yasmeen Abu-Laban has drawn together work by both high-profile and emerging scholars to rescue gender from the margins of theoretical discussions on the nation, the state, public policy, and citizenship. Contributors bring the insights of feminist analysis to bear on three relationships central to popular and policy discussions in contemporary Canada and beyond: gender and nation, gender and state processes, and gender and citizenship.

Gendering the Nation-State employs a comparative framework and builds on three decades of multidisciplinary work. Nuanced and wide-ranging, the collection crosses and challenges physical, theoretical, and disciplinary borders. It will appeal to scholars in political science, gender studies, and sociology.

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Yasmeen Abu-Laban is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Alberta. Widely published in the areas of difference and citizenship, she is co-author of Selling Diversity: Immigration, Multiculturalism, Employment Equity, and Globalization.

Contributors: Yasmeen Abu-Laban, Caroline Andrew, Janine Brodie, Louise Chappell, Maya Eichler, Jane Jenson, Paul Kershaw, Judy Rebick, Marian Sawer, Francesca Scala, Jackie F. Steele, Linda Trimble, Jill Vickers, and Shauna Wilton

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This is an excellent collection. While its main focus is clearly on gender and the state, the book makes important contributions to our understanding of nationalism, comparative politics, neoliberalism, postcolonialism, risk society and the role of transnational actors and NGOs. The collection clearly establishes that analyzing gender is not just a matter of “adding” insights to existing analyses but that gendered perspectives often fundamentally challenge the way in which traditional categories and analyses are constructed. As Yasmeen Abu-Laban makes clear in her introduction, the collection “is a response to a disciplinary incompleteness in political science. ---

…political scientists and other social scientists will benefit from reading Gendering the Nation-State. It contributes to the breaking down of boundaries in political science and clearly connects theories to both empirical knowledge and the political outcomes that affect women directly.

--- The 14 essayists in this book have brilliantly analyzed gender and nation, gender and state processes and gender and citizenship. This is a scholarly book showing the way to justice, equality and understanding for the role of women in the state.

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Gendering the Nation-State: An Introduction
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Yasmeen Abu-Laban
Gender and Nation
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Gendering the Hyphen: Gender Dimensions of Modern Nation-State Formation in Euro-American and Anti- and Post-colonial Contexts
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Jill Vickers
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Gender and Nation in the Soviet/Russian Transformation
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Projecting Gender and Nation: Literature for Immigrants in Canada and Sweden
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Gender and State Processes
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Assembling Women, Gendering Assemblies
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Feminist Ideals versus Bureaucratic Norms: The Case of Feminist Researchers and the Royal Commission on New Reproductive Technologies
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Framing Feminists: Market Populism and Its Impact on Public Policy in Australia and Canada
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Women’s Rights and Religious Opposition: The Politics of Gender at the International Criminal Court
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Louise Chappell
Gender and Citizenship
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Putting Gender Back In: Women and Social Policy Reform in Canada
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Janine Brodie
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Citizenship in the Era of “New Social Risks”: What Happened to Gender Inequalities?
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Jane Jenson
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Carefair: Gendering Citizenship “Neoliberal” Style
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Paul Kershaw
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Republican Liberty, Naming Laws, and the Role of Patronymy in Constituting Women’s Citizenship in Canada and Québec
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Jackie F. Steele
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Gendering Nation-States and/or Gendering City-States: Debates about the Nature of Citizenship
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Caroline Andrew
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Afterword: The Future of Feminism
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Bibliography
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Index
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Gendering the Nation-State

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Front Matter

Contents

Contributors

Acknowledgments

Gendering the Nation-State: An Introduction

Gendering the Hyphen: Gender Dimensions of Modern Nation-State Formation in Euro-American and Anti- and Post-colonial Contexts

Gender and Nation in the Soviet/Russian Transformation

Projecting Gender and Nation: Literature for Immigrants in Canada and Sweden

Assembling Women, Gendering Assemblies

Feminist Ideals versus Bureaucratic Norms: The Case of Feminist Researchers and the Royal Commission on New Reproductive Technologies

Framing Feminists: Market Populism and Its Impact on Public Policy in Australia and Canada

Women’s Rights and Religious Opposition: The Politics of Gender at the International Criminal Court

Putting Gender Back In: Women and Social Policy Reform in Canada

Citizenship in the Era of “New Social Risks”: What Happened to Gender Inequalities?

Carefair: Gendering Citizenship “Neoliberal” Style

Republican Liberty, Naming Laws, and the Role of Patronymy in Constituting Women’s Citizenship in Canada and Québec

Gendering Nation-States and/or Gendering City-States: Debates about the Nature of Citizenship

Afterword: The Future of Feminism

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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