Gendering the Nation-State

Yasmeen Abu-Laban is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Alberta. Widely published in the areas of difference and citizenship, she is co-author of Selling Diversity: Immigration, Multiculturalism, Employment Equity, and Globalization.Contributors: Yasmeen Abu-Laban, Caroline Andrew, Janine Brodie, Louise Chappell, Maya Eichler, Jane Jenson, Paul Kershaw, Judy Rebick, Marian Sawer, Francesca Scala, Jackie F. Steele, Linda Trimble, Jill Vickers, and Shauna Wilton

• ContributorsAcknowledgmentsGendering the Nation State: An Introduction / Yasmeen Abu-LabanPart 1: Gender and Nation1 Gendering the Hyphen: Gender Dimensions of Modern Nation-State Formation in Euro-American and Anti- and Post-Colonial Contexts / Jill Vickers2 Gender and Nation in the Soviet/Russian Transformation / Maya Eichler3 Projecting Gender and Nation: Literature for Immigrants in Canada and Sweden / Shauna WiltonPart 2: Gender and State Processes4 Assembling Women, Gendering Assemblies / Linda Trimble5 Feminist Ideals versus Bureaucratic Norms: The Case of Feminist Researchers and the Royal Commission on New Reproductive Technologies / Francesca Scala6 Framing Feminists: Market Populism and Its Impact on Public Policy in Australia and Canada / Marian Sawer7 Women's Rights and Religious Opposition: the Politics of Gender at the International Criminal Court / Louise ChappellPart 3: Gender and Citizenship8 Putting Gender Back In: Women and Social Policy Reform in Canada / Janine Brodie9 Citizenship in the Era of New Social Risks. What Happened to Gender Inequalities? / Jane Jenson10 Carefair: Gendering Citizenship "Neoliberal" Style / Paul Kershaw11 Republican Liberty, Naming Laws, and the Role of Patronymy in Constituting Women's Citizenship in Canada and Quebec / Jackie F. Steele12 Gendering Nation States and/or Gendering City-States: Debates about the Nature of Citizenship / Caroline AndrewAfterword: The Future of Feminism / Judy RebickNotesBibliographyIndex

The 14 essayists in this book have brilliantly analyzed gender and nation, gender and state processes and gender and citizenship. This is a scholarly book showing the way to justice, equality and understanding for the role of women in the state. - Ronald F. MacIsaac (Lower Island News, Vol. 25, 2008) …political scientists and other social scientists will benefit from reading Gendering the Nation-State. It contributes to the breaking down of boundaries in political science and clearly connects theories to both empirical knowledge and the political outcomes that affect women directly.- Sara Mitchell, University of Ottawa (Canadian Public Policy/Analyse de politiques, vol xxxvii, no 3) This is an excellent collection. While its main focus is clearly on gender and the state, the book makes important contributions to our understanding of nationalism, comparative politics, neoliberalism, postcolonialism, risk society and the role of transnational actors and NGOs. The collection clearly establishes that analyzing gender is not just a matter of "adding" insights to existing analyses but that gendered perspectives often fundamentally challenge the way in which traditional categories and analyses are constructed. As Yasmeen Abu-Laban makes clear in her introduction, the collection "is a response to a disciplinary incompleteness in political science. - Carol Johnson (Canadian Journal of Political Science (2011), 44: 458-459)