Contextualizing Family Planning [electronic resource] : Truth, Subject, and the Other in the U.S. Government /
Panu, Mihnea.author.
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.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references (p. [225}-240]) and index.
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.
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.
Sociology.
Families.
Families—Social aspects.
Psychology.
Social structure.
Social inequality.
Reproductive medicine.
Social groups.
Family.
Gender Studies.
Family.
Popular Science in Psychology.
Social Structure, Social Inequality.
Reproductive Medicine.
Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging.