Böcker av Nira Yuval-Davis

"This book is a richly document account, based on original research, of how bordering has become dispersed into the interstices of everyday life. Controlling borders is about much more than patrolling territorial boundaries: it now comprises a multitude of practices and processes in local contexts of everyday life"--

This book examines the place of women within ethnic and national communities in nine different societies, and the ways in which the state intervenes in their lives. Contributions from a group of scholars examine the situations in their religious, economic and historical context.

An agenda setting book from a major academic figure in the social sciences.

Written and informed by the experiences of women from different ethnic minorities in Britain, this book analyzes ethnicity as a political, rather than a cultural phenomenon. It develops an overall perspective for analyzing the constructs of race and racism.

This text provides a critique of the literature on gender and nationhood and an analysis of the ways in which gender relations are affected by national projects and processes. It argues that "nationhood" usually involves specific notions of "manhood" and "womanhood".