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Nationalism and Gender

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Nationalism and Gender is an interdisciplinary field of study that examines the interplay between national identity and gender roles, exploring how nationalist movements and ideologies shape, reinforce, or challenge gender norms and the experiences of individuals based on their gender within national contexts.
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Nationalism and Gender is an interdisciplinary field of study that examines the interplay between national identity and gender roles, exploring how nationalist movements and ideologies shape, reinforce, or challenge gender norms and the experiences of individuals based on their gender within national contexts.

Key research themes

1. How does nationalism construct and enforce gender roles to shape national identity and political legitimacy?

This research area examines the ways in which nationalism employs gendered symbolism, norms, and roles to build and reproduce national identity. It focuses on the cultural construction of gender within nationalist discourse, the instrumentalization of women as symbols of the nation, and the implications of sexual regulation for political and social inclusion. Understanding these processes is crucial for revealing how nationalism perpetuates power dynamics and exclusion through gender.

Key finding: This paper foregrounds the centrality of women as nation-mothers in nationalist imaginaries, especially in India, showing how women’s bodies become symbols and battlegrounds legitimizing violence and exclusion in nationalist... Read more
Key finding: This paper identifies gender as a simultaneous social construction aligned with nationalist ideologies, where women operate both as symbolic embodiments of the nation (e.g., Marianne in France) and as regulated subjects... Read more
Key finding: The paper documents how nationalist discourses construct gendered roles, where women are idealized as guardians of morality and reproductive contributors essential for nation-building, but simultaneously confined within... Read more
Key finding: This foundational work theorizes the inherently gendered nature of nationalism, positing that while feminism seeks freedom from gender oppression, nationalism simultaneously perpetuates hierarchical state power often at... Read more

2. What roles do women play in nationalist movements and how do diaspora contexts shape gendered nationalisms?

This research area explores women's active and often conflicting participation in nationalist movements, focusing especially on diasporic conditions where women negotiate between homeland nationalist projects and feminist transnational agendas. It investigates how gendered power dynamics manifest within nationalist organizations, how women challenge or reinforce nationalist ideologies, and the political implications of diaspora organizing for nation-building and gender justice.

Key finding: Through empirical research on Kurdish women's organizations in diaspora (Canada, Britain, Sweden) and their impact on nation-building in northern Iraq, this paper reveals the tensions between homeland patriarchal nationalist... Read more
Key finding: This work highlights the transnational antifeminist networks that link diverse nationalist and religious right movements globally, emphasizing the pivotal role of gender in their political strategies. It documents how women... Read more
Key finding: This article analyzes how right-wing populist actors across the Americas and Europe employ gendered narratives, including seemingly emancipatory rhetoric about women’s sexual freedom, to justify anti-immigration and racist... Read more

3. How do emotional, cognitive, and organizational dynamics ground the resilience and adaptability of nationalism in modern societies?

This domain investigates the socio-psychological and structural mechanisms that sustain nationalism as a powerful and enduring form of collective identity in the modern era. It explores theoretical debates on nationalism’s roots, differentiating emotional attachments, cognitive cultural narratives, and interests-driven state-building, and examines empirical cases illustrating how nationalism adapts, institutionalizes, and pervades everyday life and political organization.

Key finding: This historical-sociological analysis finds that nationalism becomes deeply 'grounded' through evolving organizational, ideological, and interpersonal mechanisms that embed national identity in modern state institutions and... Read more
Key finding: The work conceptualizes national identity formation as simultaneously driven by interest-based rational motives, emotional attachment (irrational, passionate dimensions), and cognitive/intellectual frameworks (symbols and... Read more
Key finding: Building on extensive cross-national historical evidence, this study demonstrates that nationalism's ubiquity—and its deep embedding in modern societies—is due to gradual processes of ideological penetration, state coercion,... Read more

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Artykuł poświęcono analizie medialnych wypowiedzi działaczek nacjonalistycznych organizacji kobiecych, Kobiet dla Narodu oraz Sekcji Kobiet Ruchu Narodowego (obecnie pod nazwą Narodowa Organizacja Kobiet). Celem analizy uczyniono... more
Este artículo analiza las formas tradicionales y emergentes de vincular analítica e históricamente dos construcciones sociales: la identidad de género y la identidad nacional. Para ello, el texto estudiará los siguientes puntos: 1) los... more
Als deel van de verkiezingscampagne van mei 2019 stelt de rechts-conservatieve Nieuw-Vlaamse Alliantie (N-VA) de kiezer voor aan haar “Nieuw-Vlaams feminisme”. Deze masterscriptie analyseert dit fenomeen door middel van een... more
Throughout history, the nationalist themes of memory, humiliation and hope have typically been masculinized (Enloe, 1990), whereas women were consigned to minor roles in the process of nationalist movements and contests. Women were... more
La cocinera y la soldadera: nacionalismo revolucionario y género cultura.nexos.com.mx/ Contra lo que quieran mostrar las celebraciones oficiales, la ideología de la Revolución mexicana tiene aspectos oscuros. Entre ellos, como nos muestra... more
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