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Nostalgia, Gender, and Nationalism

Narrative Traditions

ISBN-13: 9780814766354
Publisher: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Imprint: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Edited by Suzanne Kehde, Edited by Jean Pickering
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Local release date: 01/02/1997
Format: Hardback (229.00mm X 152.00mm) 320 pages Weight: 0g
Categories: Gender studies: women [JFSJ1]

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Google Preview: Most Americans think of Betsy Ross as she was depicted in Charles Weisberger's popular painting The Birth of Our Nation's Flag--a motherly figure, sewing at the hearth. In fact, as Jo Ann Menezes's analysis in Nostalgia, Gender, and Nationalism points out, Ross was a widowed businesswoman who ran an upholstery shop out of her house. In Weisberger's painting, all signs of economic industry are erased and Ross's house is transformed into a home rather that the site of cottage industry. Ross is constructed as the perfect heroic mother, worthy of sacred creation; thus, our flag was born. Ross's transformation into an icon neatly illustrates the conjunction of soaring nationalism and the establishment of woman as a fixed domestic presence and serves as an excellent example of the master narratives revealed in Nostalgia, Gender, and Nationalism. The essays in this provocative anthology explore the connections between nation and gender and the ways in which nostalgia functions to bind these two presumably unrelated constructions together. Collectively they suggest that women pay a special fee on behalf of the nation, even though it is traditionally represented as an honorarium given to them and that, in fact, the nation-state takes as a foundational principle the subordination of women.; A former Lecturer in English at California Polytechnic State University, Suzanne Kehde is currently attending San Joaquin College of Law. Jean Pickering is Professor of English at California State University, Fresno.; "This book...broadens our understanding of the post-World War II confrontation between the United States and the USSR and serves as a strong stimulus for the study of the contribution to the clash of ideas, using documents from former Communist archives."-Ilya V. Gaiduk, American Historical Review; Google Preview content

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