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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Auteur principal: Stevens, Jacqueline
Format: Licensed eBooks
Langue:anglais
Publié: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 1999.
Accès en ligne:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv17db388
Table des matières:
  • 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.