Homeland Maternity

US Security Culture and the New Reproductive Regime

Natalie Fixmer-Oraiz (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

276 Seiten

2019
University of Illinois Press (Verlag)
978-0-252-08414-0 (ISBN)

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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.

Natalie Fixmer-Oraiz is an assistant professor of communication at the University of Iowa.

Erscheinungsdatum	21.03.2019
Reihe/Serie	Feminist Media Studies
Verlagsort	Baltimore
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	367 g
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Gynäkologie / Geburtshilfe
	Studium ► 1. Studienabschnitt (Vorklinik) ► Histologie / Embryologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	0-252-08414-4 / 0252084144
ISBN-13	978-0-252-08414-0 / 9780252084140
Zustand	Neuware