ABSTRACT
The booklet is criss-crossed with oscillating boundaries between bodies marked by nativity and newness. Throughout Citizen in Denmark, the model immigrants' performances are situated in relationship to representations of the kinds of Danishness they should seek to mimic. One set of these representations emerges towards the end of the chapter on Family' in a photo and accompanying body of text entitled the body and sex'. The photo is of a wide lawn covered with towels and bathing suit-clad bodies. The sense that the unclothed Danish women's bodies in the body and sex' embody the Nordic epitome of whiteness' we reference above is enhanced by their location in a chapter on family'. Bloodlines are involved here as families, or, a national family, of white bodies reproduce liberated Danish women, and thus Danish modernity, over time. This is the backdrop against which the bodies of white Danish women in a rather traditional way come to mark the boundaries of the nation.
