Gender, Nation, and Situated Intersectionality: The Case of Catalan Pro-independence Feminism

Debates on nation, self-determination, and nationalism tend to ignore the gender dimension, women's experiences, and feminist proposals on such issues. In turn, feminist discussions on the intersection of oppressions generally avoid the national identity of stateless nations as a source of oppr...

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Published in:Politics & gender 2020-06, Vol.16 (2), p.608-636
Main Author: Rodó-Zárate, Maria
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Citizenship
Debates
Ethnocentrism
Feminism
Gender
Genealogy
Hegemony
Imperialism
Independence movements
Inequality
Intersectionality
National identity
Nationalism
Oppression
Political activism
Self determination
Sexuality
Statelessness
Women
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Summary:Debates on nation, self-determination, and nationalism tend to ignore the gender dimension, women's experiences, and feminist proposals on such issues. In turn, feminist discussions on the intersection of oppressions generally avoid the national identity of stateless nations as a source of oppression. In this article, I relate feminism and nationalism through an intersectional framework in the context of the Catalan pro-independence movement. Since the 1970s, Catalan feminists have been developing theories and practices that relate gender and nationality from an intersectional perspective, which may challenge hegemonic genealogies of intersectionality and general assumptions about the relation between nationalism and gender. Focusing on developments made by feminist activists from past and present times, I argue that women are key agents in national construction and that situated intersectional frameworks may provide new insights into relations among axes of inequalities beyond the Anglocentric perspective.
ISSN:1743-923X
1743-9248
DOI:10.1017/S1743923X19000035