Sex, violence and nationalism

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ID2995010
AuthorsT H Eriksen (0000-0002-5662-757X, University of Oslo, corresponding author)
Year2017
Volume40
Issue9
Pages1438-1449
Publication date2017-07-15
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueEthnic and Racial Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0141-9870 • E-ISSN: 1466-4356
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/01419870.2017.1300293
OpenAlexW2622913981
LanguageEN
Citations received9
References cited17

This article is a commentary on Joane Nagel's "Masculinity and nationalism", which discusses differing cultural conceptualizations of gender and masculinity, critically interrogating essentialist conceptualizations of maleness, and - in the most empirical and engaged section of the article - relates conceptualizations of maleness to war. This commentary elaborates on and develops Nagel's analysis by introducing new empirical examples and through its emphasis on symbolism, metaphor and kinship imagery in portraying nations in a gendered manner. It is also pointed out that nations at peace project different gender relations to nations at war

Essentialism · Kinship · Masculinity · Metaphor · Nationalism · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Anthropology · Gender Roles and Identity Studies · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Gender, Security, and Conflict · Law · Philosophy

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