Over de positie van vrouwen in nationale bewegingen in Iran, Turkije, Australië, het Verenigd Koninkrijk en Zuid-Afrika. Bevat de volgende bijdragen: 'Oh to be in England': the British case study / Francesca Klug: Women, nation and the state in Australia / Marie de Lepervanche: Mothers of the nation: a comparitive analysis of nation, race and motherhood in Afrikaner nationalim and the African National Congress: Sexuality and economic domination in Uganda / Christine Obbo: National reproduction and 'the demographic race' in Israel / Nira Yuval-Davis: Women and reproduction in Iran / Haleh Afshar: Women and the Turkish state: political actors or symbolic pawns? / Deniz Kandiyoti: Women and nationalisms in Cyprus / Floya Anthias: Women as the family: the foundation of a new Italy / Lesley Caldwell.