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.
The Nordic countries have long been seen as pioneers in promoting gender equality. The book brings together scholars from the global South and post-socialist economies to reflect on Nordic approaches to gender equality. The contributors to the book seek to explore from a comparative perspective the vision, values, policies, mechanisms, coalitions of interests and political processes that help to explain Nordic achievements on gender equality. While some contributors explore the Nordic experience through the prism of their own realities, others explore their own realities through the Nordic prism.