Feminism(s), nationalism(s), and Frantz Fanon.
Published: 2004
Language: eng
Number of pages: 99
Subjects: Fanon, Frantz, -- 1925-1961.; Nationalism and feminism.
Description: This thesis explores the interconnected issues of nationalist and gender identities in the Third World, with particular reference to the work of Frantz Fanon. The first chapter offers a detailed examination of Frantz Fanon's theory of anti-imperialist nationalism. The second chapter accomplishes three tasks: a critical analysis of some of the debates that occur with regard to Fanon within various feminist communities; an exploration of the relationship between feminism(s) and nationalism(s), and; a refraining of contemporary discourses regarding gender and nationalism to include Fanon's concept of anti-imperialist nationalism. I demonstrate that feminist criticisms of Fanon's revolutionary theory as antithetical to women's liberation (on the grounds of his engagement of nationalism) is erroneous in that such criticisms conflate various nationalisms and feminisms with each other. I argue that, far from being antithetical to women's liberation, Fanon's work is important in order to obtain a robust understanding of gender and nationalist identities.
Notes: Thesis (M.A.)--University of Toronto, 2004.

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