Homeland Maternity - US Security Culture and the New Reproductive Regime (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	University of Illinois Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Feminist Media Studies
Release date:	March 2019
First published:	2019
Authors:	Natalie Fixmer-Oraiz
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	276
ISBN-13:	978-0-252-08414-0
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Warfare & defence > Defence strategy, planning & research > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > General Books > Medicine > General issues > Public health & preventive medicine > Personal & public health > Birth control, contraception, family planning Books > Medicine > Pre-clinical medicine: basic sciences > Human reproduction, growth & development > Reproductive medicine > General
LSN:	0-252-08414-4
Barcode:	9780252084140

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