Reproducing the State
"Stevens has written an imaginative, detailed, and meticulously documented analysis... This is a stimulating book that will reward readers in many disciplines."--Choice
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. Les mer
She also shows how geography is used to represent political regions, including continents, as the seemingly natural underpinning for racial taxonomies perpetuated through miscegenation laws and birth certificates. And Stevens argues that sex differences are also constituted through membership practices of political societies. In its chronological and disciplinary range, Reproducing the State will reward the interest of scholars in many fields, including anthropology, history, political science, sociology, women's studies, race studies, and ethnic studies.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Princeton University Press
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 312
- ISBN
- 9780691017143
- Utgivelsesår
- 1999
- Format
- 25 x 20 cm
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"Stevens has written an imaginative, detailed, and meticulously documented analysis... This is a stimulating book that will reward readers in many disciplines."--Choice