Professional paper

Women as means of national (re)production

Aurora Rakić

Abstract

The role and position of women in society are one of the burning questions in public discussion around the world, ever so occurring in the last century, after women began to gain both civil and social rights. But systematic research and fruitful discussion are rarely the cases when we're talking about what social roles women play, what positions they take, and how their social status manifests in our social reality. The paper you have in front of you came to exist as an attempt to theoretically define and analyze the role of women in the (re)production process of a nation that has been divided into three subcategories: biological, cultural, and symbolic. Each of those subcategories are defined and explained separately, supported by examples from both the past and the present. Of course, in the real world, all of the subcategories are intertwined, forming a complex web of gender relations and gender-defined roles, sexual dimorphism, nation, ethnicity, symbolic values and sociopolitical usefulness.

Keywords

biological, cultural and symbolic reproduction of a nation; gender roles; mother tongue; ethnic groups, dichotomy of femininity and masculinity; rape

Hrčak ID:

253235

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/253235

Publication date:

5.3.2021.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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