Nationalism

Cherríe Moraga's landmark Chicana lesbian feminist essays and poems examine family, racialized labor, desire, language, and coalition. This reading centers the 1983 original, not every piece in the expanded 2023 edition.

Cynthia Enloe traces militarization through consumer culture, military labor, family life, and nationalism, asking how gender makes these ties seem ordinary.

Cynthia Cockburn examines women’s cooperative projects in Belfast, Israel/Palestine, and Bosnia-Herzegovina to ask how democracy can cross conflict without erasing difference.

Nira Yuval-Davis and Floya Anthias’s edited volume examines how nationalism, state formation, family policy, and women’s political roles shape one another.