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BL
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959838
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b714208
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| Main Entry
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Panu, Mihnea.
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| Title & Author
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Contextualizing family planning : : truth, subject, and the Other in the U.S. government /\ Mihnea Panu.
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| Edition Statement
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1st ed.
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: Palgrave Macmillan,, 2009.
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| Page. NO
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244 pages ;; 22 cm
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| ISBN
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0230607985
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: 9780230607989
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-240) and index.
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| Contents
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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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| Abstract
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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 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."--BOOK JACKET.
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USA
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Family planning-- Political aspects-- United States.
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Human reproduction-- Political aspects-- United States.
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Liberalism-- United States.
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Welfare recipients-- United States.
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Bevölkerungspolitik
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Familienplanung
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Human reproduction-- Political aspects.
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Liberalism.
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Politics and government.
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Politische Ethik
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Sozialwesen
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Welfare recipients.
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Family Planning Policy-- legislation jurisprudence.
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Family Planning Services-- organization administration.
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Government.
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Politics.
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Public Assistance.
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Reproductive Behavior.
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United States, Politics and government.
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United States.
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United States.
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| Dewey Classification
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363.9/60973
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| LC Classification
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HQ766.5.U5P36 2009
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| NLM classification
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2009 L-484
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WA 550 AA1P198c 2009
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