This chapter highlights the ways that transnational adoption and reproductive politics more broadly have been quite important to US foreign policy, and are, in fact part of US grand strategy. They do much more political work than is generally acknowledged, and do so in ways that merit scholarly attention. Too often, scholars of grand strategy have relied on the same gendered logic that Donald Trump has, in which reproductive politics belong to a feminized, private world of children and families rather than the robust, masculine world of politics, militaries, and foreign policy. That logic has made the signal importance of things like transnational adoption, overpopulation, and birth control invisible in studies of grand strategy. The chapter seeks to rectify that oversight, restoring reproductive politics to its rightful place as a real and important element in grand strand strategy.
Birth Control in the Decolonizing Caribbean: Reproductive Politics and Practice on Four Islands, 1930–1970, by Nicole C. Bourbonnais
