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Stories of Women

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A study of the interrelationship of gender and nationalism which places
itself, as does this book, within the ambit of postcolonial critique, has two
important impacts on that body of critical discourse. For one, it usefully rereminds
postcolonial theory of the significance of the nation, as I will explain.
For another, it persuasively introduces (and reintroduces) the constitutive
reality of sexual difference to a critical practice that has till very recently, unless
in passing, tended to overlook this formative legacy. In mainstream postcolonial
studies, gender is still conventionally treated in a tokenistic way, or as subsidiary
to the category of race. These two impacts correspond to the two major
ironies or blind-spots of postcolonial theory which continue even today to
compete for centre-stage. For, although the theory emerges from the political
actions of the colonised involved in changing the conditions of their lives, great
numbers of whom have been feminists and nationalists, postcolonial theorists
have to date often neglected or peripheralised the legacies both of women’s
resistance and of nationalist struggles for self-determination.

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: Manchester University Press.,
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978 1 5261 2596 5
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English
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Politics
Women Parliamentarians
Life-story
Biographies
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