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Female and national self-determination: a gender re-reading of ‘the apogee of nationalism’

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 November 2000

Glenda Sluga
Affiliation:
Department of History, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
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Abstract

This article offers a gender re-reading of the international history of the post-First World War peace process, a period when nationalism is said to have reached its ‘apogee’, when national self-determination and mutual cooperation between nations in the form of a League of Nations defined liberal aspirations for a democratic new world order. It was also a period when international women's organisations emphasised female self-determination as both a national and international issue. Juxtaposed, these two aspects of the history of the peace of 1919 shed light on the importance of sex difference to the idea of national self-determination and to the overlapping constitution of the national and the international as spheres of political agency and influence in the early twentieth century.

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Research Article
Copyright
© 2000 Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism

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