Gender, Ethnicity and Political Ideologies

Nickie Charles, Helen Hintjens, Nickie Charles, Helen Hintjens

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2002
• Print ISBN: 9780415148207
• eBook ISBN: 9781134753376
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Politics
• Index: Politics & International Relations

First Published in 2004. This volume is a collection of the papers from an annual conference in February 1993 of the women's sections of the British Sociological Association and the Political Studies Association at the London School of Economics. Its focus was 'Gender, Sexuality and Identity: Commonalities and Difference'. With the exception of Valerie Bryson's chapter and the introductory chapter, all the chapters in this volume originated as papers presented to that conference. There have been a number of political issues that have characterised the post-Cold War era such as nationalism, religious fundamentalism, inter-ethnic conflict and the process of democratization.
In this ground breaking study the authors develop a feminist perspective on these issues and reveal the way that political ideologies use women as symbols of cultural identity. Included are chapters on inter-ethnic conflict in Yugoslavia, the emergence of a "male democracy" in Chile, women's rights in Israel, the far right and women in France and the experience of immigrants in Britain.
Gender, Ethnicity and Political Ideologies is a revealing study of women's involvement with restrictive political ideologies and demonstrates the importance of a feminist politics that enables women to understand and work with each other across the boundaries that divide them.

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• Gender, Ethnicity and Political Ideologies
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Notes on contributors
• Preface and acknowledgments
• 1   Gender, ethnicity and cultural identity: womens ‘places’
• 2   Founding fathers and earth mothers: women’s place at the ‘birth’ of nations
• 3   Identity: feminist perspectives on ‘race’, ethnicity and nationality
• 4   The logics of exclusion: nationalism, sexism and the Yugoslav war
• 5   When society was simple: gender and ethnic divisions and the Far and New Right in France
• 6   Strategies of resistance among the Muslim minority in West Yorkshire: impact on women
• 7   Citizen warriors, workers and mothers: women and democracy in Israel
• 8   Women’s activism, authoritarianism and democratisation in Chile
• 9   Beyond differences: women, empowerment and coalition politics
• Index