Is "nation" a woman?

After reading Between Men more thoroughly, I am not sure if "woman" is assimilable to "nation" or "country," simply because both need saving. Sedgwick is making a very specific argument about the role of women in homosocial relations, and I don't think this specific argument is readily graftable onto the more abstracted exchanges that occur around conspiracy theory. Still, Sedgwick's argument as a whole, concerning the great chains of male being that are continually recreated across cultures and historical periods, well suits the homosocial relations I see narrated in conspiracy theory.

I'm still sure that there's something retrograde about the "saving the nation" trope, but it simply can't be narrowly grafted onto Sedgwick's formulation.