Description: A pathbreaking, cross-disciplinary collection examining the relations of gender, race, nation around the world in an effort to rethink what a non-essentialist international feminist politics could be.
Review Quotes: "A signal contribution to our current understanding of the gendered politics of national and global economies of desire, labour, capital, and representation. Though the question of woman and/in the nation is not new, it has never before been engaged on such a scale or with such an attentiveness to diverse disciplines, media, and theoretical positions."--Parama Roy, author of Indian Traffic: Identities in Question in Colonial and Postcolonial India