Constructions of nation, family and gender

• Published in: Ethnicities
• Main Author: Komulainen, Katri
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: SAGE Publications 2003
• Subjects: Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous); Cultural Studies; Finn; karelia*; karelian; karelians
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1468796803003001787; http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1468796803003001787

The article investigates the collective nature of stories of war and the constructions of nationality embedded in these narratives. The material comes from a larger study, `Gender and Nationality in the Finnish Language Secondary School', and consists of 17 life stories of women who studied in...