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1st ed |
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244 p. ; 22 cm |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-240) and index |
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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 |
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Electronic reproduction. Basingstoke, England : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. Mode of access:World Wide Web. System requirements: Web browser. Title from title screen (viewed on Jan. 11, 2010). Access may be restricted to users at subscribing institutions |
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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 theinvestigation of the U.S. bio- and anatomo-politics of reproduction inthe national family planning strategy, in an analytical framework thatrelates them to the welfare benefit policies in the same country. Panuargues that as long as neo-liberal governmental apparatuses map and rule society using this combination of "othering" and foundational assumptions, each governmental intervention reinforcesthe systems that make domination, inequality, and exclusion possible |
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Palgrave |
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Original 9780230607989
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(DLC) 2009013910 (OCoLC)320350447
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Family Planning Policy -- legislation & jurisprudence -- United States
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Family Planning Services -- organization & administration -- United States
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Government -- United States
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Politics -- United States
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Public Assistance -- United States
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Reproductive Behavior -- United States
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Family planning -- Political aspects -- United States
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Human reproduction -- Political aspects -- United States
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Welfare recipients -- United States
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Liberalism -- United States
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United States -- Politics and government
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Palgrave Connect (Online service)
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