Reproductive Politics and the Making of Modern India

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-3
Author(s):  
Sourav Chatterjee
Keyword(s):  
Reproductive Politics

Population Control in the “Global North”?: Canada’s Response to Indigenous Reproductive Rights and Neo-Eugenics

2021 ◽  
Vol 102 (s3) ◽  
pp. s876-s902
Author(s):  
Erika Dyck ◽  
Maureen Lux
Keyword(s):  
Family Planning ◽  
Birth Control ◽  
Reproductive Rights ◽  
Population Control ◽  
Historical Analysis ◽  
Access To Health Services ◽  
Reproductive Politics ◽  
The North ◽  
Access To Health ◽  
Global North

An historical analysis of reproductive politics in the Canadian North during the 1970s necessitates a careful reading of the local circumstances regarding feminism, sovereignty, language, colonialism, and access to health services, which differed regionally and culturally. These features were conditioned, however, by international discussions on family planning that fixated on the twinned concepts of unchecked population growth and poverty. Language from these debates crept into discussions about reproduction and birth control in northern Canada, producing the state’s logic that, despite low population density, the endemic poverty in the North necessitated aggressive family planning measures.

Pro-Life or Pro-Choice? Humanistic Buddhists’ Voices Surrounding Abortion in Contemporary Taiwan

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-80
Author(s):  
Grace Cheng-Ying Lin
Keyword(s):  
Wide Spectrum ◽  
Life Forms ◽  
Buddhist Philosophy ◽  
Reproductive Politics ◽  
Discursive Analysis ◽  
The People ◽  
The Law ◽  
Humanistic Buddhism ◽  
Pro Life ◽  
Pro Choice

In Taiwan, abortion was legalized in 1984. This paper examines the voices surrounding abortion expressed by monasteries in Humanistic Buddhism, a prominent Buddhist philosophy practiced in modern Taiwan. Humanistic Buddhism emphasizes that it is a “religion of the people.” However, in addition to the law of karma and causality, the value of all life forms is prioritized based on the ethics of “non-harming (ahimsā).” When some monasteries insist that abortion is killing, resulting in karmic retribution, some express sympathy with a woman’s decision to abort. When some monasteries promote a newly popularized ritual to appease aborted fetuses, some are keenly critical of the exploitation of women and manipulation of scriptures. Through a discursive analysis, this paper demonstrates the wide spectrum of Buddhist narratives in response to reproductive politics embedded in the conflicts between modernity and tradition, as well as locality and globality.

Crisis Pregnancy and the Colonization of the Clinic

2019 ◽  
pp. 111-140
Author(s):  
Natalie Fixmer-Oraiz
Keyword(s):  
Homeland Security ◽  
Teen Pregnancy ◽  
Popular Media ◽  
Teen Motherhood ◽  
Reproductive Politics ◽  
Security Culture ◽  
Health Clinics ◽  
Teen Mom ◽  
Crisis Pregnancy

This chapter explores how rhetorics of crisis have reshaped contemporary reproductive politics. First, it examines the significance of crisis teen pregnancy narratives in popular media (e.g., Juno, 16 and Pregnant, Glee, and Teen Mom) and how these narratives manage collective anxieties over abortion, adoption, and teen motherhood. It traces these trends alongside the colonization of comprehensive women’s health clinics by the evangelical crisis pregnancy center movement. The logic of homeland security culture, present in this case study through rhetorics of “crisis,” fuels the differential protection of domestic bodies and works to produce and reproduce national identity through the bodies of particular women and families.

Introduction

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-30
Author(s):  
Natalie Fixmer-Oraiz
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Homeland Security ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
The United States ◽  
Reproductive Politics ◽  
Security Culture ◽  
History Of ◽  
And Control ◽  
Theoretical Foundations

This chapter explores how recent discourses of motherhood and nation are deeply enmeshed and mutually constitutive. I trace a brief history of reproductive politics in the United States, clarifying how the project of nation building has consistently enlisted motherhood and worked to govern women’s reproduction through differential modes of surveillance and control. This chapter provides the historical and theoretical foundations for the book; it notes the precedents to homeland maternity while also elaborating on how contemporary alignments of motherhood and nation are distinct and specific to homeland security culture.

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