Reproducing the State / / Jacqueline Stevens.
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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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2022] ©1999 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (312 p.) :; 1 table |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Introduction
- One The State of Membership
- Two The Nation and the Tragedy of Birth
- Three The Semiotics of Nationality: Naming Names
- Four Race and the State: Male-Order Brides and the Geographies of Race
- Five Compensatory Kinship Rules: The Mother of Gender
- Six The Religious Future
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the author