2. Your second assignment will be to discuss what you think could be the advantages/disadvantages of gender theory when explaining how national identities have been constructed and reinforced.
For instance, what is the relationship between different kinds of identities, as a gender identity, a class identity or a national identity, and so forth?
Refer to Scott's theoretical thinking about gender, as well as her concrete analysis of historical documents and to things of relevance from phase 3.
For instance, what is the relationship between different kinds of identities, as a gender identity, a class identity or a national identity, and so forth?
VastaaPoistaI think that the relationship between different kinds of identities, as a gender identity, a class identity or a national identity can be seen from a perspective of a genealogy. Identity becomes a matter of political allegiance. Class and gender are inextricably linked. I'm
referring to Scott's theoretical thinking about gender at page 84 and 88 Women in the Making of the English Working Class in Gender and the Politics of History by Scott, Joan Wallach.