Reproducing Citizens: family,
state and civil society
Whilst the politics of reproduction have been at the heart of feminist struggles for over a century and a half, their analysis has not yet come to occupy a central place in the interdisciplinary study of citizenship. This volume takes up the challenge posed by Bryan Turner, when he noted the absence of any systematic thinking about familial relations, reproduction and citizenship (2008), and offers the first major global collection of work exploring this nexus of practices and political contestations.
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.
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 Laboratrio Associado, University of Coimbra, Portugal.
Mariya Stoilova is a Lecturer in Sociology at Birkbeck, University of London, UK.
Reproducing Citizens: family,
state and civil society
Edited by
Sasha Roseneil, Isabel Crowhurst,
Ana Cristina Santos and Mariya Stoilova
First published 2016
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Contents
Sasha Roseneil, Isabel Crowhurst, Ana Cristina Santos and Mariya Stoilova
Ana Amuchstegui and Edith Flores
Jenny Gunnarsson Payne
Patrick Hanafin
Damien W. Riggs and Clemence Due
Umut Erel
Chiara Bertone
The chapters in this book were originally published in Citizenship Studies, volume 17, issue 8 (December 2013). When citing this material, please use the original page numbering for each article, as follows:
Chapter 1
Reproduction and citizenship/reproducing citizens: editorial introduction
Sasha Roseneil, Isabel Crowhurst, Ana Cristina Santos and Mariya Stoilova
Citizenship Studies, volume 17, issue 8 (December 2013) pp. 901911
Chapter 2
Womens interpretations of the right to legal abortion in Mexico City: citizenship, experience and clientelism
Ana Amuchstegui and Edith Flores
Citizenship Studies, volume 17, issue 8 (December 2013) pp. 912927
Chapter 3
Transgendering Mothers Day: blogging as citizens media, reproductive rights and intimate citizenship
Jenny Gunnarsson Payne
Citizenship Studies, volume 17, issue 8 (December 2013) pp. 928941
Chapter 4
Rights, bioconstitutionalism and the politics of reproductive citizenship in Italy
Patrick Hanafin
Citizenship Studies, volume 17, issue 8 (December 2013) pp. 942955
Chapter 5
Representations of reproductive citizenship and vulnerability in media reports of offshore surrogacy
Damien W. Riggs and Clemence Due
Citizenship Studies, volume 17, issue 8 (December 2013) pp. 956969
Chapter 6
Kurdish migrant mothers in London enacting citizenship
Umut Erel
Citizenship Studies, volume 17, issue 8 (December 2013) pp. 970984
Chapter 7
Citizenship across generations: struggles around heteronormativities
Chiara Bertone
Citizenship Studies, volume 17, issue 8 (December 2013) pp. 985999
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Ana Amuchstegui is a Professor in the Department of Education and Communication at the Universidad Autnoma Metropolitana-Xochimilco, Mexico City, Mexico. She has conducted extensive qualitative research on subjectivity, sexuality, and gender in Mexico, with an emphasis on rights related to reproduction and sexuality. She is currently coordinating a research-action project on women as peer counselors in HIV health services, in conjunction with the Mexico City HIV/AIDS Program and collaborating NGOs.
Chiara Bertone is an Adjunct Professor of the Sociology of the Family in the Istituto di Richerca Sociale, University of East Piedmont, Alessandria, Italy. Her main interests lie in sexual citizenship, non-heterosexual experiences and family relations, heterosexuality and masculinity, and the medicalisation of male sexuality. She is the author or co-author of several books in Italian.
Isabel Crowhurst is a Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the University of Essex, Colchester, UK. She was previously based in the Department of Criminology and Sociology at Kingston University, UK. Her research interests are in the areas of sexuality and intimacy, with a particular concern for the shifting and contested knowledge(s) produced around non-normative sexual practices and intimate lives, how these inform and are informed by laws and policies, and how they are negotiated and made sense of in everyday lived experiences.
