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Gender and Nationalism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 December 2019

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Jennifer Thomson*
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Abstract

Nationalism has long been understood to be a deeply gendered phenomenon. This article provides an overview of some of the key concepts and literature in the study of gender and nationalism, including women; gender; the nation and the intersection of sexuality, race, and migration; and gender within nationalist imaginations. It offers some future research agendas that might be pursued in work on gender and nationalism—namely the gendered dimensions of populism or “new” nationalism.

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gendernationalismsexualityethnicitywomen
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State of the Field
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Nationalities Papers , Volume 48 , Special Issue 1: Special Issue on the Emergence and Resilience of Parastates , January 2020 , pp. 3 - 11
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© Association for the Study of Nationalities 2020

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