Captive Gender: Ethnic Stereotypes & Cultural Boundaries

978-81-88965-18-2

Women Unlimited, 2005

Language: English

126 pages

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The centrality of gender to nationalism, and to imagining the nation, has been convincingly argued by feminist scholars and activists across the world. As Rada Ivekovic says, it is probably the “first” organizing principle in any society. In this critical set of essays, she advances that argument by locating it in the context of the ethnic or communal division of countries; the gradual, and perhaps even deliberate, depoliticisation of a society that predisposes it towards violence; and finally, in the juxtaposition of nationalism and freedom itself.

 

Rada Iveković

Rada Iveković philosopher, writer and feminist, was born in Zagreb, Yugoslavia, in 1945. She is Programme Director at the Collège international de philosophie, Paris. She has taught at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Paris-8 (Vincennes à Saint Denis) and, previously, at the University of Zagreb, Yugoslavia. She is the author of Le sexe de la nation (2003); Divided Countries, Separated Cities: 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 & R. Samaddar.