Gender, nationalism, and war : conflict on the movie screen

Half-title......Page 3
Title......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Dedication......Page 7
Contents......Page 9
Figures......Page 11
Preface......Page 13
1 Virginia Woolf’s purse......Page 17
War as a mostly male activity......Page 20
Hypotheses on gender, nationalism, and war......Page 27
Masculinity, femininity, and violence in the American Western......Page 33
Trailer: gender and nationalist violence on film......Page 37
2 Algeria: a world constructed out of ruins......Page 41
Colonial exploitation and discrimination......Page 43
Gender roles before the independence movement......Page 48
Origins of the Algerian war......Page 51
Subverting stereotypes in The Battle of Algiers......Page 55
Pontecorvo’s neorealism and its limits......Page 74
Algeria after independence......Page 79
The proliferation of small (misogynist) men......Page 82
Legacies of violence......Page 94
3 Yugoslavia: archetype or anomaly?......Page 96
Yugoslavia’s history: conflict and coexistence......Page 98
What constitutes difference? Bosnia’s ephemeral ethnicity......Page 102
Grievance and greed: economic sources of conflict......Page 106
Media manipulation: “Television was more important than history”......Page 111
Women and nationalism in Yugoslavia......Page 114
Gender and the wars......Page 119
Pretty Village, Pretty Flame......Page 130
4 Chechnya: virgins, mothers, and terrorists......Page 155
Two centuries of Russo-Chechen relations......Page 159
Solidifying stereotypes in Chechnya......Page 161
Socio-economic change and the demise of the Soviet model......Page 163
Chechnya’s bid for independence......Page 165
War after war......Page 167
Women, violence, and Islam......Page 172
Gender between tradition and modernity......Page 175
Sexual violence and the limits of peacemaking......Page 181
Chechnya on screen......Page 185
From romantic realism to crude caricature......Page 193
From “White Stockings” to “Black Widows”......Page 203
Gender role reversal and the promise of redemption......Page 208
5 Québec: oui, no, or femme......Page 219
Origins of French Canadian nationalism......Page 220
Women and the early nationalist movement......Page 225
The Quiet Revolution......Page 228
Language and sovereignty......Page 230
The FLQ and the October Crisis......Page 234
No: “The culture survives because of the mothers”......Page 239
Yvette and the 1980 referendum......Page 252
Choosing not to choose: “So what’s the problem?”......Page 258
6 “To live to see better times”: gender, nationalism, sovereignty, equality......Page 269
Nationalism......Page 271
Sovereignty......Page 275
Equality......Page 279
Sequel: gender and nationalist violence on film......Page 285
Index......Page 288