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Borders of Being - Citizenship, Fertility and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific (Paperback)
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Many have written about the way in which a "family romance"
connects embodied daily life with the imagined community of the
nation, and naturalizes the nation so that it appears not as a
novel, fragile contingent creation, but as something ancient,
robust and real. This book goes beyond such metaphoric associations
of families and nations by looking at the central significance of
planning families to promoting state development. It also considers
the way that state power is accommodated and resisted, complicit
with and contested by other powers grounded in relations of
kinship, ethnicity, religion, and class.
Through an exploration of richly varied national histories, the
authors highlight the common recurring intimacies between marking
the borders of states and remolding the bodies of women as
reproductive citizens. The tensions between past and present,
between local, national and international concerns, and between men
and women's interests in reproduction are all graphically
revealed.
Surveying the relationship between the emerging models of
citizenship and state population projects in several Asian
states--India, China, Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, and the
Pacific states of Papua New Guinea, Fiji, the Solomon Islands and
Vanuatu--"Borders of Being" will attract readers in the several
disciplines of anthropology, demography, and history as well as the
cross disciplinary fields of gender and development studies.
Margaret Jolly is Professor and Convenor of the Gender Relations
Project, Australian National University. Kalpana Ram is Research
Fellow, Australian Research Council, Macquarie University.
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