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Suruchi Thapar-Björkert (Five ways women's
participation is projected…
Suruchi Thapar-Björkert
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Nationalist symbolism
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Rape of the Nation is rape of the woman
- National identity and sexual identity interconnected
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Nationalism focuses on one gender - Men
- Women not analysed as part of nation-building process
- Nationalism is Gendered builds on gender power, Social difference through Nationalism
- Nationalism is also Heterosexist
EMPIRICAL EXAMPLE New French Republic
- women had to be orderly - excluded from public sphere
- Women were part of private sphere
- Any challenge to this order was a challenge to National Moral Order
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Male interests, notions of manliness and masculine culture have shaped politics
Manhood connected to Nationhood
Nationalism formed through masculine ideas, memories and hopes for the future
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Anti-colonial responses to Femininisation and infantilisation #
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Motherhood - Oppression or Emancipation?
- Individual interests of women subordinate to interests of the "mother nation"
- Motherhood can give uneducated women a voice in public sphere
Religion is driving force of Nationalism
- If women go against religious rules violence is justified
- Woman's shame is the man's and the nation's shame