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Oxford University Press, USA
Nationalizing Sex: Fertility, Fear, and Power
Nationalizing Sex: Fertility, Fear, and Power
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Government sponsored breeding programs, medals of motherhood, forced abortions, and surgical sterilization on park benches--all of these policies have come out of government efforts to nationalize sex and harness procreation as a tool of the state. Over 170 countries (or 85% of governments) worldwide have active policies designed to manipulate the fertility of their citizenry with the aim of influencing the rate of growth of their populations. While over 90% of least developed states are trying to combat population growth with policies
designed to reduce fertility, over two-thirds of all developed countries are actively crafting legislation to increase their populations. Despite over a hundred years of relative failure and innumerable studies questioning the viability and utility of government attempts to manipulate the fertility
rate of the population as a whole, the majority of governments worldwide continue to uphold and develop such policies. What drives government to try to control how many children people will have? Nationalizing Sex traces why population emerged as an object of governance and how natalist policy has changed over time and place, using case studies from France, Germany, Russia, India, and China. It analyzes the origins, growth, and development of fertility as a national and international
political issue, the rise and fall of the narratives used to ascribe meaning to natality, and the global proliferation of oddly similar policies adopted by widely dissimilar states. As importantly, it explains why, after hundreds of years, countries continue to pursue natalist policy even though it
has been such a widespread failure.
Author: Richard Togman
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 03/13/2019
Pages: 296
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 9.50h x 6.40w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780190871840
designed to reduce fertility, over two-thirds of all developed countries are actively crafting legislation to increase their populations. Despite over a hundred years of relative failure and innumerable studies questioning the viability and utility of government attempts to manipulate the fertility
rate of the population as a whole, the majority of governments worldwide continue to uphold and develop such policies. What drives government to try to control how many children people will have? Nationalizing Sex traces why population emerged as an object of governance and how natalist policy has changed over time and place, using case studies from France, Germany, Russia, India, and China. It analyzes the origins, growth, and development of fertility as a national and international
political issue, the rise and fall of the narratives used to ascribe meaning to natality, and the global proliferation of oddly similar policies adopted by widely dissimilar states. As importantly, it explains why, after hundreds of years, countries continue to pursue natalist policy even though it
has been such a widespread failure.
Author: Richard Togman
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 03/13/2019
Pages: 296
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 9.50h x 6.40w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780190871840
About the Author
Dr. Richard Togman received his PhD from the University of British Columbia specializing in political demography. Having worked at institutions including the National Defense University, Canadian Armed Forces and the Chamber of Commerce, Dr. Togman brings a wealth of experience to this field. After publishing in a number of leading journals, Dr. Togman founded a company, Rent Panda, in the housing sector to capitalize on his unique insights into demography and population trends.
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