ABSTRACT
It is a sombrely appropriate time to be considering the issue of nationalism, with the bloody disintegration of a once-stable, multinational Yugoslavia. As we go to press, we hear terrible stories of the systematic rape of Muslim women in Bosnia, involving not only physical violation, but forcible impregnation. This is the most grotesque reminder of how, fundamentally, nationalism is gendered—women's bodies are the boundary of the nation, and the bearers of its future.
