Encountering Nationalism (eBook)

Jyoti Puri is Associate Professor of Sociology at Simmons College. She is the author of Woman, Body, Desire in Post-Colonial India: Narratives of Gender and Sexuality (1999).

Acknowledgments.

Introduction.

Parades, Flags, and National Pride.

Vexed Links: Perspectives on Nationalism, the State, and
Modernity.

Fraught Legacies: Nationalism, Colonialism, and Race.

Redoubtable Essences: Nationalisms and Genders.

Checking (Homo)Sexualities at the Nation's Door:
Nationalisms and Sexualities.

In the Name of God, Community, and Country: Nationalisms,
Ethnicity, and Religion.

Conclusion.

Speculations on the Future of Nationalisms.

Index.

"Puri is particularly good at demonstrating the extent to which
nationalisms are gendered ... The book is an interpretative essay
that seeks to realign debate on its subject. In this it is
challenging and interesting." Ethnic and Racial
Studies

"The book explicitly discusses the wide array of debates
centered around the theme of nationalism and therefore acts as a
work that provides a seminal undersatnding of the issue of
nationalism." International Journal of Contemporary
Sociology

"This is a wonderful entry point for students and faculty trying
to get a grip on the often slippery but politically fraught idea,
and practice, of nationalism. Puri puts earlier discussions of
nationalism into a post-September 11 focus. Moreover, she brings
the ongoing debates about the nature and uses of nationalism up to
date by showing how central to nationalism are presumptions about
women, and sexuality." - Cynthia Enloe, Clark
University

"This is a thoughtful introduction to the field of nationalism.
It successfully analyzes the gendered and sexual dimensions of
nationalist projects, and contextualizes them within global,
economic, and political relations of power during the colonial
period and the present day." - Nira Yuval-Davis,
University of East London