The Gender of the Nation-State: Some Balkan Parallels Cover Image

Полът на националната държава: някои балкански паралели
The Gender of the Nation-State: Some Balkan Parallels

Author(s): Krassimira Daskalova
Subject(s): Anthropology, Social Sciences, Gender Studies, Customs / Folklore, Sociology, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Culture and social structure , Nationalism Studies, Social Norms / Social Control, Sociology of Politics
Published by: Институт за етнология и фолклористика с Етнографски музей при БАН
Keywords: anthropology;sociology;

Summary/Abstract: Based on the theoretical insights of Nira Yuval Davis’ and Carol Pateman’s path-breaking research and on a number of Southeast European examples the article spells out the relationship between gender and nation-state (XIX-XX c.). The author shows various practices of (gender) discriminations concerning women’s citizenship in the realms of education, social, political rights, etc. and argues that the social contract in the modern nation-states (including in the Balkans) is a „fraternal social contract“ and the nation-state has а male gender.

  • Issue Year: 2015
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 388-400
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Bulgarian