Women, Ethnicity and Nationalism: The Politics of Transition [Hardcover]

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.Using contemporary case studies, Women, Ethnicity and Nationalism asks whether societies caught in political and social transition provide new opportunties for women or, instead, create new burdens and obstacles for them.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 Africas past and present, Women in contemporary Russia and the former Soviet Union, Back to the future: nationalism and gender in post-socialist societies, Womens rights and political conflict in Yemen 19901994, Communal violence, civil war and foreign occupation: women in Lebanon, Islamization and modernization in Malaysia: competing cultural, reassertions and womens identity in a changing society, Conclusion, IndexUS? 1998 selection and editorial matter Rick Wilford and Robert L.Miller; individual chapters the contributors