Reproducing the State.
People are said to acquire their affiliations of ethnicity, race, and sex at birth. Hence, these affiliations have long been understood to be natural, independent of the ability of political societies to define who we are. Reproducing the State vigorously challenges the conventional view, as well as...
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| Language: | English |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
1999.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv17db388 |
Table of Contents:
- 1. The State of Membership
- 2. The Nation and the Tragedy of Birth
- 3. The Semiotics of Nationality: Naming Names
- 4. Race and the State: Male-Order Brides and the Geographies of Race
- 5. Compensatory Kinship Rules: The Mother of Gender
- 6. The Religious Future.