Gender, Ethnicity and Political Ideologies

Name: Gender, Ethnicity and Political Ideologies
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

First Published in 2004. This volume is a collection of the papers from an annual conference in February 1993 of the women\u2019s sections of the British Sociological Association and the Political Studies Association at the London School of Economics. Its focus was \u2018Gender, Sexuality and Identity: Commonalities and Difference\u2019. With the exception of Valerie Bryson\u2019s chapter and the introductory chapter, all the chapters in this volume originated as papers presented to that conference. There have been a number of political issues that have characterised the post-Cold War era such as nationalism, religious fundamentalism, inter-ethnic conflict and the process of democratization.\nIn this ground breaking study the authors develop a feminist perspective on these issues and reveal the way that political ideologies use women as symbols of cultural identity. Included are chapters on inter-ethnic conflict in Yugoslavia, the emergence of a \""male democracy\"" in Chile, women's r.