Empire's Fetish

Sexualised nationalism and gendering of the Falklands War

Bibliographic Data

ID12652773
AuthorsZoe Anderson (The University of Western Australia, corresponding author)
Year2011
Volume13
Issue2
Pages189-204
Publication date2011-06-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueNational Identities (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1460-8944 • E-ISSN: 1469-9907
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14608944.2011.577164
OpenAlexW2078144910
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited22

This article examines nationalist impulses toward a familiar, traditional heteronormativity through the language and imagery of a sample of tabloid newspapers in Britain during the Falklands War in 1982. In doing so, it asks how tabloid representation of the war created a particular and normative version of ‘Britishness’, central to which was the English woman, whose body became the site for a specific coalescing of race, gender and sexuality; a fixed notion of whiteness and normative heterosexuality located in the particular, unstable cultural space of a struggling ‘post-colonial’ Britain

Britishness · Colonialism · Empire · Heteronormativity · Human sexuality · Media studies · Nationalism · Newspaper · Normative · Political science · Politics · Representation (politics · Sociology · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Gender, Security, and Conflict · History · Law · Media Studies and Communication