of organization and

Thus, the nation-state evolved as a source of organization and identification for the startlingly diverse, and necessarily imagined, communities created by expansive modem industrial formations. 3 However, in contributing towards assuaging the problematic psychosocial impulses associated with rampaging industrial capitalism, the nation-state and its corroborative constituents of national identity became firmly anchored in an unequal gender politics. It was not that preindustrial societies were anything less than patriarchal structures, but with the emergence of the industrial nation-state, the marginalization of the female population became ever more pervasive and efficacious.