1st Edition

Women, Ethnicity and Nationalism The Politics of Transition

Edited By Robert E. Miller, Rick Wilford Copyright 1998
    222 Pages
    by Routledge

    224 Pages
    by Routledge

    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.

    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

    Biography

    Robert E. Miller, Rick Wilford