examine the role of women in the nationalist struggles of europe?

Dear Student,

The role of women can be viewed from the following examples:

• Nations were then portrayed as female figures. The female form that was chosen to personify the nation did not stand for any particular woman in real life; rather it sought to give the abstract idea of the nation a concrete form. That is, the female figure became an allegory of the nation.
•  Throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries women and non-propertied men organised opposition movements demanding equal political rights. 
• men and women of the liberal middle classes combined their demands for constitutionalism with national unification.