Going public Book

	Prologue : the right to be lonely	1
Pt. 1	Deconstructing public versus private : sexuality in the discourses of nation and political economy
1	Tolerance and equality : the "Jewish question" and "the woman question	15
2	Gender and the sexual politics of public visibility in Iranian modernity	43
3	Failures of domestication : speculations on globality, economy, and the sex of excess in Thailand	69
4	The private parts of public value : the regulation of women workers in China's export-processing zones	99
Pt. 2	State, law and custom : contests about the recognition and legitimation of new forms of kinship and sexuality
5	Is kinship always already heterosexual	123
6	De-casing women : dialogue and difference in the law	151
7	Enabling disability : rewriting kinship, reimagining citizenship	178
8	Virtuous cuts : female genital circumcision in an African ontology	201
9	Feminist family politics	225
Pt. 3	Changing paradigms, reconfiguring boundaries : social practice and social science
10	Usages of science and science of usages : on homoparental families	241
11	A semiotics of the public/private distinction	261
12	Rethinking transition : globalism, gender and class	278
13	Making the visible invisible : the fate of "the private" in revolutionary China	309
Pt. 4	Displacements of the private/public opposition
14	A semiprivate room	333
15	The seminar : Mode d'emploi, impure spaces in the light of the late totalitarianism	359