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CAPTIVE
GENDER: ETHNIC STEREOTYPES &
CULTURAL BOUNDARIES
Rada Ivekovic
Rs 200 Hb 2005
81-88965-18-9
(All rights available.) |
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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
Ivekovic says, it is probably the first organising
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 predisposes 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 exclusionsof
women, of minorities and of the underclasses that
it engenders.
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RADA
IVEKOVIC
philosopher, writer and
feminist, was born in Zagreb, Yugoslavia, in 1945.
She is currently Programme Director at the Collège
International de Philosophie, Paris. She has taught
at the Department of Philosophy of the University
of Paris-8 (Vincennes à 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. |
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