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GENDERING THE NATION-STATE
CANADIAN AND COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES |
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Yasmeen Abu-Laban (Editor), Caroline Andrew, Janine Brodie |
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Hardback |
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£94.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0774814659 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780774814652 |
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| Publisher: |
UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
23 April, 2008 |
| Pages: |
344 |
| Description: |
Gendering the Nation-State explores the gendered dimensions of a fundamental organizational unit in social and political science -- the nation-state. |
| Synopsis: |
Serious study of scoial and political life must attend to gender asa category of analysis. Gendering the Nation-State exploresthe gendered dimensions of a fundamental organizational unit in socialand political science: the nation-state. Yasmeen Abu-Laban has drawntogether work by both high-profile and emerging scholars to rescuegender from the margins of theoretical discussions on the nation, thestate, public policy, and citizenship. Contributors bring the insightsof feminist analysis to bear on three relationships central to popularand policy discussions in contemporary Canada and beyond: gender andnation, gender and state processes, and gender and citizenship.Gendering the Nation-State employs a comparative frameworkand builds on three decades of multidisciplinary work. Nuanced andwide-ranging, the collection crosses and challenges physical,theoretical, and disciplinary borders. It will appeal to scholarsin political science, gender studies, and sociology. |
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Canada |
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University of British Columbia Press |
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