Captive Gender (Ethnic Stereotypes & Cultural Boundaries)

DETAILS :

• Publisher: Women Unlimited
  
• Author: Rada Ivekovic
  
• Language: English
  
• Pages: 130
  
• Cover: Hardcover
  
• Weight 320 gm
  
• Edition: 2005
  
• ISBN: 8188965189

ABOUT THE BOOK

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 lvekovic 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 prepoliticisation it towards violence; and finally, in the juxtaposition of nationalism and freedom itself.

 Intellectually and politically grounded in the experience of successive partitions, this theoretically sophisticated analysis presents a challenge to feminists and political philosophers alike, on the very notion of the modern nation and its evolution; and on the exclusions-of women, of minorities and of the underclasses-that it engenders.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Rada lvekovic, philosopher, writer and feminist, was born in Zagreb, Yugoslavia, in 1945. She is currently Programme Director at the College international de philosophie, Paris. She has taught at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Paris-8 (Vincennes a 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.