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Female and National Self‐Determination: A Gender Re‐reading of ‘The Apogee of Nationalism’
Author(s) -
Sluga Glenda
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
nations and nationalism
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.655
H-Index - 44
eISSN - 1469-8129
pISSN - 1354-5078
DOI - 10.1111/j.1354-5078.2000.00495.x
Subject(s) - nationalism , constitution , league , agency (philosophy) , reading (process) , period (music) , politics , political science , international relations , democracy , gender studies , sociology , order (exchange) , political economy , law , social science , economics , physics , finance , astronomy , acoustics
. This article offers a gender re‐reading of the international history of the post‐First World War peace process, a period when nationalism is said to have reached its ‘apogee’, when national self‐determination and mutual cooperation between nations in the form of a League of Nations defined liberal aspirations for a democratic new world order. It was also a period when international women's organisations emphasised female self‐determination as both a national and international issue. Juxtaposed, these two aspects of the history of the peace of 1919 shed light on the importance of sex difference to the idea of national self‐determination and to the overlapping constitution of the national and the international as spheres of political agency and influence in the early twentieth century.