National holidays are opportunities in which the national collectivity is constructed through performances, visual regimes and much public spectacle. In the process women are implicated in various ways in the construction of nationalism during such performances. Accordingly, narratives of history are put forward, the nature of which exists in relation to concerns of the present, including the ideologies the state attempts to put forward as valid. That means national holidays are spaces in which power relations are performed through various repertoires that characterise such days, repertoires...