In this timely and accessible book, Kaufman and Williams merge mainstream questions and feminist frameworks to advance the insights of both. Their comparative study deepens our knowledge of citizenship and nationalism as gendered, and demonstrates the political salience of feminist inquiry.

V. Spike Peterson, University of Arizona

Recommended.

Choice Reviews

The analytical work itself is largely both compelling and convincing. For students of gender, violence and the State, this text offers an accessible overview of feminist literature on nationalism.

International Feminist Journal of Politics

Kaufman and Williams rightly observe that with the rise of nationalism, protection for women's rights declined....I would recommend the book as very informative and for bringing attention to women's continuous struggles for equal rights....Kaufman and Williams also succeed in establishing the role of women's activism in the context of war and open conficts.

Women's Studies Quarterly

I would recommend this book as very informative and for bringing attention to women's continuous struggles for equal rights…. Kaufman and Williams also succeed in establishing the role of women's activism even in the context of war and open conflicts.

WSQ: Women's Studies Quarterly

With their superb combining of IR theory and careful case studies, Kaufman and Williams reveal how state elites have relied on the manipulations of "mixed marriages" to exclude certain women from nationalist-defined citizenship - and how so many women have organized to resist that exclusion and the militarism that it foments.

Cynthia Enloe, author of Globalization and Militarism: Feminists Make the Link