In her article, The Theatre of Operations: Performing Nationness in the Public Sphere, Diana Taylor discusses the expression of nationness as a performance and links it with the performance of gender. She writes, "Both gender and nation-ness (which, I will argue, are the product of each other's performance and therefore difficult to imagine separately) are oppositional and exclusionary - just as one is male as opposed to female, one is Argentinean as opposed to something else. Both are inscribed on physical bodies" (92). She laments the idea of nationness as one that,  like gender, is fundamentally oppositional; by definition it creates a subject and an other. We have discussed redefining the oppositional gender roles, so what about redefining ideas of nationness? How can nationality be expressed without automatically creating exclusionary boundaries? Taylor seems to suggest this is inherently impossible. If so, then is it important, or even necessary, to express nationality?