Contextualizing Family Planning

Truth, Subject, and the Other in the U.S. Government

AvMihnea Panu

Häftad, Engelska, 2009

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This book is a critical analysis of the technologies of identity-formation in governmental family planning policy. Panu argues that in order for contemporary liberalism to govern legitimately, governmental discourses have to create and subsequently alienate certain identities as "other" that is, as the polar opposite of the good, normal citizen. These identities usually center on the poor, the racialised, and the gendered. These arguably discriminatory practices are illustrated through the investigation of the U.S. bio- and anatomo-politics of reproduction in the national family planning strategy, in an analytical framework that relates them to the welfare benefit policies in the same country. Panu argues that as long as neo-liberal governmental apparatuses map and rule society using this combination of "othering" and foundational assumptions, each governmental intervention reinforces the systems that make domination, inequality, and exclusion possible.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2009-11-18
Mått:140 x 216 x 15 mm
Vikt:327 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:244
Förlag:Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN:9781349374762

Utforska kategorier

Psykologi inom Psykologi och pedagogik
Genusvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Sociologi inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

MIHNEA PANU is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Wilfrid Laurier University in Ontario, Canada.

Recensioner i media

"This project aims to raise a series of issues and concerns regarding contemporary heath politics in the national U.S. context. Focusing on welfare and family planning policies Panu critically addresses the discursive effects of such policies, particularly in relation to contemporary formations of race, gender and class ...This is a timely project which could find a wide audience in the social sciences, particularly in the disciplines of political science, sociology, social policy, public health, as well as the interdisciplinary fields of cultural studies and women and gender studies. The book provides an important historical account of contemporary health policy in the U.S. and should therefore remain a significant text." - Nicole Vitellone, Lecturer in Sociology, University of Liverpool

Innehållsförteckning

Government, Truth and Subjectivity in a 'Post-substance' Reality The Other in Liberal Governmentality Governing the Nation's Reproduction: Race as Pathology Governing the Nation's Reproduction: Culture, Poverty and Eugenics Patriarchal Orders of Reality in the Apparatuses of Sexuality-regulation Strategies of Truth and the Formation of Governmental Reality Liberal Governing and the Contemporary Political Imagination