ABSTRACT
Women, Ethnicity and Nationalism asks whether societies caught in political or social transition provide new opportunities for women, or instead, create new burdens and obstacles for them. Using contemporary case-studies, each author looks at the interaction of gender ethnicity and class in a divided society. The varying experiences of women are discussed in the following countries: Northern Ireland; South Africa; the former Soviet Union and Yugoslavia; Yemen; Lebanon and Malaysia.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 4|21 pages
Gender, nationalism and transformation
Difference and commonality in South Africa’s past and present
chapter 9|20 pages
Islamization and modernization in Malaysia
Competing cultural reassertions and women’s identity in a changing society
