Conceptualizing Gender-Sexuality-State-Nation

Abstract

Feminists' attention to states and nations has been uneven. The cultural struggles over citizenship, the deployment of nationalisms, and the exigencies of an international system of states have not been fully analyzed from a race/sexuality/gender perspective. This is troubling given the ongoing evidence of the salience of states and nations in the lives of women and marginalized groups. Contrary to some predictions, states are not declining but being reconfigured in line with cross-border flows of capital, neoliberalism, and intra-, inter-, and extra-state violence. The fault lines of nationalism(s) are also starkly evident. The flawed promises of nationalism as an all-inclusive, horizontal community are especially visible from the positions of women and marginalized groups. This special issue argues that understanding the changing cultural and political terrain of states and nations is relevant and crucial to analyses of sexuality and gender. This issue grows out of the recent work of a number of feminist scholars who have recognized that states, nationalisms, and nations are profoundly gendered. They have attended to the gendered-, class-, and race-based idioms that shape the contours of nationalism, its boundaries, and its

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