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In this highly original book, Camille Robcis seeks to explain why and how academic discourses on kinship have intersected and overlapped with political debates on the family—and on the nature of French republicanism itself.
Camille Robcis is Assistant Professor of History at Cornell University.
"The Law of Kinship is smart, sophisticated, and thought provoking. Camille Robcis situates the discourses of structural anthropology and Lacanian psychoanalysis within the practical politics of modern France and in particular the debate over laws governing the family. Robcis teases out of the texts of Levi-Strauss and Lacan a few central motifs that she regards as critical to the logic of their systems and that she labels the 'structuralist social contract.' By tracing the consequential career of this trope in the French public sphere, she opens up a fascinating area of investigation."-Jan E. Goldstein, Norman and Edna Freehling Professor of History, The University of Chicago, author of The Post-Revolutionary Self: Politics and Psyche in France, 1750-1850
"In The Law of Kinship, Camille Robcis brings intellectual history to bear on a central political question in France: how academic discourses on kinship overlap with political discourses on the family. Robcis explains how and why several crucial French political debates of the last thirty years have become so bitter yet are so often incomprehensible to foreign observers. The book's counterintuitive claims, its rigor, and its elegance of language and formulation make this a must-read for students of modern European history as well as of gender and sexuality studies."-Todd Shepard, The Johns Hopkins University, author of The Invention of Decolonization: The Algerian War and the Remaking of France
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