Using contemporary case studies, Women, Ethnicity and Nationalism asks whether societies caught in political and social transition provide new opportunties for women or, instead, create new burdens and obstacles for them.

Notes on contributors, Preface and acknowledgements, Women, ethnicity and nationalism: surveying the ground, Gender and nation, Identity, location, plurality: women, nationalism and Northern Ireland, Gender, nationalism and transformation: difference and commonality in South Africa’s past and present, Women in contemporary Russia and the former Soviet Union, Back to the future: nationalism and gender in post-socialist societies, Women’s rights and political conflict in Yemen 1990–1994, Communal violence, civil war and foreign occupation: women in Lebanon, Islamization and modernization in Malaysia: competing cultural, reassertions and women’s identity in a changing society, Conclusion, Index