Contextualizing Family Planning: Truth, Subject, and the Other in the U.S. Government

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Mihnea Panu

Contextualizing Family Planning

Truth, Subject, and the Other in the U.S. Government

Mihnea Panu

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English

Palgrave Macmillan
18 November 2009

Ethical issues: abortion & birth control; Central government policies; Birth control, contraception, family planning

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 the investigation of the U.S. bio- and anatomo-politics of reproduction in the national family planning strategy, in an analytical framework that relates them to the welfare benefit policies in the same country. Panu argues that as long as neo-liberal governmental apparatuses map and rule society using this combination of ""othering"" and foundational assumptions, each governmental intervention reinforces the systems that make domination, inequality, and exclusion possible.

By: Mihnea Panu
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 450g
ISBN: 9780230607989
ISBN 10: 0230607985
Pages: 244
Publication Date: 18 November 2009
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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

MIHNEA PANU is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Wilfrid Laurier University in Ontario, Canada.

Reviews for Contextualizing Family Planning: Truth, Subject, and the Other in the U.S. Government

<p> This project aims to raise a series of issues and concerns regarding contemporary heath politics in the national U.S. context. Focusing on 'welfare' and 'family planning policies' Panu critically addresses the discursive effects of such policies, particularly in relation to contemporary formations of race, gender and class...This is a timely project which could find a wide audience in the social sciences, particularly in the disciplines of political science, sociology, social policy, public health, as well as the interdisciplinary fields of cultural studies and women and gender studies. The book provides an important historical account of contemporary health policy in the U.S. and should therefore remain a significant text. --Nicole Vitellone, Lecturer in Sociology, University of Liverpool