Gender and National Identity: Lessons from the Australian Case

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dc.contributor.authorWickes, Rebecca
dc.contributor.authorSmith, Philip
dc.contributor.authorPhillips, Timothy
dc.date.accessioned2015-12-07T22:53:58Z
dc.date.issued2006
dc.date.updated2015-12-07T12:45:13Z
dc.description.abstractIn recent years, feminist studies have substantially redressed the absence of women from nationalism theory and analysis. This new work has highlighted the symbolic marginalisation of women in dominant ideologies about national imagined communities, and made salient the importance of women's roles in nationalist projects. Yet there remains little complementary knowledge of the degree of reflexivity, critique or compliance that is taking place with respect to national ideas in contexts of banal nationalism. To what extent are women distinguished from men in their attitudes to established and emergent conceptions of the nation in widely circulating symbol sets? Using data from a national sample survey of 2071 Australians, the research investigates lines of difference between women and men, in aggregate and within social subgroups, in orientation to contesting visions of the nation. Findings show that, in the main, women and men are characterised more by similarity than by divergence in their general dispositions towards ideas of the nation. However, while the results draw attention to the absence of strong disparities between women and men, they also point to the importance of remaining sensitive to the more subtle and nuanced ways in which gender informs national imaginings at the individual level.
dc.identifier.issn1036-1146
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/27954
dc.publisherRoutledge, Taylor & Francis Group
dc.sourceAustralian Journal of Political Science
dc.titleGender and National Identity: Lessons from the Australian Case
dc.typeJournal article
local.bibliographicCitation.issue3
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage307
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage289
local.contributor.affiliationWickes, Rebecca, Griffith University
local.contributor.affiliationSmith, Philip , Yale University
local.contributor.affiliationPhillips, Timothy, College of Arts and Social Sciences, ANU
local.contributor.authoremailrepository.admin@anu.edu.au
local.contributor.authoruidPhillips, Timothy, u3753478
local.description.embargo2037-12-31
local.description.notesImported from ARIES
local.identifier.absfor160803 - Race and Ethnic Relations
local.identifier.ariespublicationu9406909xPUB54
local.identifier.citationvolume41
local.identifier.doi10.1080/10361140600848929
local.identifier.scopusID2-s2.0-33748653809
local.identifier.uidSubmittedByu9406909
local.type.statusPublished Version

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