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Homeland Maternity - US Security Culture and the New Reproductive Regime (Hardcover)
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Homeland Maternity - US Security Culture and the New Reproductive Regime (Hardcover)
Series: Feminist Media Studies
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In US security culture, motherhood is a site of intense
contestation--both a powerful form of cultural currency and a
target of unprecedented assault. Linked by an atmosphere of crisis
and perceived vulnerability, motherhood and nation have become
intimately entwined, dangerously positioning national security as
reliant on the control of women's bodies. Drawing on feminist
scholarship and critical studies of security culture, Natalie
Fixmer-Oraiz explores homeland maternity by calling our attention
to the ways that authorities see both non-reproductive and "overly"
reproductive women's bodies as threats to social norms--and thus to
security. Homeland maternity culture intensifies motherhood's
requirements and works to discipline those who refuse to adhere.
Analyzing the opt-out revolution, public debates over emergency
contraception, and other controversies, Fixmer-Oraiz compellingly
demonstrates how policing maternal bodies serves the political
function of securing the nation in a time of supposed danger--with
profound and troubling implications for women's lives and agency.
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