Homeland maternity : US security culture and the new reproductive regime /
Motherhood in the context of homeland security culture is a site of intense contestation, at once a powerful form of currency and a target of unprecedented assault. In this book, Natalie Fixmer-Oraiz designates the term "homeland maternity" in order to theorize the significant relationship...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Urbana :
University of Illinois Press,
[2019]
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| Series: | Feminist media studies (University of Illinois (System). Press)
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| Summary: | Motherhood in the context of homeland security culture is a site of intense contestation, at once a powerful form of currency and a target of unprecedented assault. In this book, Natalie Fixmer-Oraiz designates the term "homeland maternity" in order to theorize the significant relationship between motherhood and nation within homeland security culture. While recent scholarship has explored both homeland security culture and the politics of contemporary motherhood from critical perspectives, no study to date has considered how recent discourses of motherhood and nation are deeply enmeshed and mutually constitutive. As reproductive bodies are represented as a threat to national security, either through supposed excess or deficiency, a culture of homeland maternity intensifies the requirements of motherhood as it works to discipline those who refuse to adhere. Each chapter takes up a specific site where this occurs. In so doing, Fixmer-Oraiz argues that homeland maternity offers a way to understand how the policing of maternal bodies in contemporary American culture serves an overt but unexamined political function, namely, securing the nation in times of perceived vulnerability and with profound implications for women's reproductive lives and agency. |
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| Physical Description: | xii, 258 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780252042355 0252042352 9780252084140 0252084144 |