Reproductive Rights and Wrongs: The Global Politics of Population Control.

1995 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 885
Author(s):  
Karen Oppenheim Mason ◽  
Betsy Hartmann
Keyword(s):  
Reproductive Rights ◽  
Population Control ◽  
Global Politics

Population Control in the “Global North”?: Canada’s Response to Indigenous Reproductive Rights and Neo-Eugenics

2021 ◽  
Vol 102 (s3) ◽  
pp. s876-s902
Author(s):  
Erika Dyck ◽  
Maureen Lux
Keyword(s):  
Family Planning ◽  
Birth Control ◽  
Reproductive Rights ◽  
Population Control ◽  
Historical Analysis ◽  
Access To Health Services ◽  
Reproductive Politics ◽  
The North ◽  
Access To Health ◽  
Global North

An historical analysis of reproductive politics in the Canadian North during the 1970s necessitates a careful reading of the local circumstances regarding feminism, sovereignty, language, colonialism, and access to health services, which differed regionally and culturally. These features were conditioned, however, by international discussions on family planning that fixated on the twinned concepts of unchecked population growth and poverty. Language from these debates crept into discussions about reproduction and birth control in northern Canada, producing the state’s logic that, despite low population density, the endemic poverty in the North necessitated aggressive family planning measures.

The Global Politics of Maternality

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Anna L. Weissman ◽  
Lucy B. Hall
Keyword(s):  
Reproductive Rights ◽  
The State ◽  
Global Politics ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter emphasizes that motherhood matters in global politics. Beginning from the position that the institution of motherhood is complicated and constructed in diverse ways across diverse settings, the chapter traces the work and influence of feminist contributions to the theorizing of motherhood and maternity to explore the ways in which practices of global politics shape and are shaped by the institution of motherhood. Calling attention to the increasing and at times deadly infringements on women’s reproductive rights across the globe, the chapter explains the role of reproduction as central to the site of maternity and motherhood, negotiating the relationship between women, reproductive bodies, and the state, and how the gendered logics of war frequently rely on maternal imagery, discourse, and representation. The chapter concludes with a description of the volume’s three sections and individual chapter contributions.

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