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This article argues that populism is always gendered and dangerous to women and democracy. The distinctive reliance on the polarization of "us" and "them" in populism draws on nationalist notions of exclusive belonging, the need for closure to protect the "us" from would be infiltrators, and observance of proscribed gendered roles to ensure the continued rule of the majority (race/ethno-nation). The reproduction of the "us" is too crucial to leave unregulated, and gendered bodies are too vulnerable to violation and occupation to go without vigilance, that is, without surveillance and demographic policing. Gendered narratives support the anti-immigration features of populism and its curbs on democratic institutions, both in the service of national recovery and in its identification of potentially disloyal, suspect voices within the demos.

Discusses uses & abuses of history in theoretical & political development, focusing on how particular approaches can obstruct the development of tolerance, gender equity, & democracy. A tension exists in Eastern Europe between the desire for economic & political reform & the creation of a romanticized past. Analyzing how history is used to legitimate political projects, it is argued that originary myths about the nation conflict with the cultivation of liberal values & institutions, resulting in the withdrawal of protection from individuals & groups who are not part of the organic community. Citizenship based on the exercise of deliberate judgment is rejected, because opposition is easily equated with disloyalty. Serbia provides a telling contemporary example. E. Munson

This essay explores the ways in which traditional gender roles and patriarchal culture play a part in the violent map‐making of ethnonationalism. With special reference to the former Yugoslavia, it looks at how boundaries designed to protect can, at the same time, be barriers to peace and security and tools of exclusion and aggression as women's bodies themselves become boundaries of the nation. Not only are women's bodies symbols of the fecundicity of the nation and the vessels for its reproduction, but they are also territorial markers. The feminization of territorial and symbolic space, however, also suggests a subversive role for women in resisting the imposed boundaries of ethnonationalism and creating alternative identities and spaces.