Reproducing Citizens: family, state and civil society
About this ebook
The book brings together citizenship scholars from across Europe, the Americas, and Australia to develop feminist and queer analyses of the relationship between citizenship and reproduction, and to explore the ways in which citizenship is reproduced. Extending the foundational work of feminist political theorists and sociologists who have interrogated the public/private dichotomy on which traditional civic republican and liberal understandings of citizenship rest, the contributors examine the biological, sexual, and technological realities of natality, and the social realities of the intimate intergenerational material and affective labour that are generative of citizens, and that serve to reproduce membership of, and belonging to, states, nations, societies, and thus of "citizenship" itself.
This book was published as a special issue of Citizenship Studies.
About the author
Sasha Roseneil is Professor of Sociology and Social Theory, and Director of the Birkbeck Institute for Social Research, at Birkbeck, University of London, UK.
Isabel Crowhurst is a Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Essex, Colchester, UK.
Ana Cristina Santos is Senior Researcher in Sociology in the Centro de Estudos Sociais Laboratório Associado, University of Coimbra, Portugal.
Mariya Stoilova is a Lecturer in Sociology at Birkbeck, University of London, UK.
