This course examines the complex relationships between gender, memory, and nationalism. It addresses some of the main theoretical perspectives on nations and nationalism, as well as feminist critiques of these perspectives. The course also considers the ways in which nationalist discourses and practices are both gendered and sexualized. Paying particular attention to the politics of memory, the course approaches the concept of the nation and its variants as historically contingent, and thus continually reproduced through discourse and practice. Particular areas of focus include colonialism, citizenship, violence, reproduction, and the military. Geographically and historically, the course takes a broad and comparative view of gender, memory, and nationalism across time and space.
- Instructor: Hannah Loney