Please note: In order to keep Hive up to date and provide users with the best features, we are no longer able to fully support Internet Explorer. The site is still available to you, however some sections of the site may appear broken. We would encourage you to move to a more modern browser like Firefox, Edge or Chrome in order to experience the site fully.

Supporting your high street Find out how »
Reproductive States : Global Perspectives on the Invention and Implementation of Population Policy, Hardback Book

Reproductive States : Global Perspectives on the Invention and Implementation of Population Policy Hardback

Edited by Rickie (, historian and curator.) Solinger, Mie (, Associate Professor of Gender Studies and Russian History at the Center for Applied Nakachi

Hardback

Out of stock

Description

Over the past hundred years, population policy has been a powerful tactic for achieving national goals.

Whether the focus has been on increasing the birth rate to project strength and promote nation-building--as in Brazil in the 1960s, where the military government insisted that a "powerful nation meant a populous nation, " -- or on limiting population through contraception and sterilization as a means of combatting overpopulation, poverty, and various other social ills, states have always used women's bodies as a political resource.

In Reproductive States, a group of international scholars--specialists in population and reproductive politics of Japan, Germany, India, Egypt, Nigeria, China, Brazil, the Soviet Union/Russia, and the United States--explore the population politics, policies and practices adopted in these countries and offer reflections on the outcomes of those policies and their legacies.

The essays in this volume focus on the context that stimulated nations to develop demographic imperatives regarding population size and "quality," and consider how those imperatives became unique sets of priorities and strategies.

They also illuminate how these nations crafted their own policies and practices, often while responding to United Nations- and U.S.- driven population goals, tactics, and interventions.

The global perspective of this volume shines light on national specificities, including change over time within a nation, while also capturing interconnections among various national politics and discourses, including evolving constructions of the key and complex concept of "overpopulation."The first volume to survey population policies from key countries on five continents and to interweave gender politics, reproductive rights, statecraft, and world systems, Reproductive States will be an essential work for scholars of anthropology, women and gender studies, feminist theory, and biopolitics.

Information

£127.50

Out of stock
Add to Basket
Sign in to add to wishlist
 
Free Home Delivery

on all orders

 
Pick up orders

from local bookshops

Information