Gender Revisions: Studies on Women in a Postnational Society

The monograph Gender Revisions is a study of socio-historical transformations of the image and identities of women in an era marked by the rise of the post-national state. The post-national state – due to various factors, extending from globalisation to feminisation of migrations and the weaker role of the social state – abandons the modern “gender contract” of the nation state. It introduces new models of social reproduction that replace it, often closely dependent on a foreign female labour force – from global housekeepers that bring ethnic and cultural diversity into the national spaces of host countries and are involved in reproduction, and are called transnational. Simultaneously, the cultural identities of local populations are becoming pluralised. The impacts of globalisation and the transition to a neoliberal economy create new spaces for identity self-determination and understanding of community identity. Women, until recently the reproducers of the modern nation, are increasingly turning into ethnically and culturally heterogeneous subjects of a post-national collective in the midst of the simultaneous forces of globalisation and the neoliberal transformation of society.