serve to place men and women in a particular nation. In virtually all cases, nationalist movements stress masculinized heterosexualized standards for behavior that have several consequences (Mosse 1985: 33). In particular, they create different and unequal places for men and women in the nation.
By the conclusion of the eighteenth century, it had been established that men and women were two different sexes. However, this finding was not achieved through any breakthrough research but from broader social pressures on setting up divisions between men and women. The distinction between different bodies became the new foundation for gender differences and formed the medical foundation for the "doctrine of separate spheres" (Dr. Christopher Forth 24 May.). Identifying these differences based
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