GWST 2800Y Lecture 3: GWST 2800 JAN.14TH .docx
28 Jan 2015
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Kligman, g. political demography: the bannning of abortion in ceausescu"s romania. Kligman explores the relationship between official rhetoric, policy, and everyday practice through an analysis of the politics of reproduction during ceausescu"s regime. In so doing, she illustrates the social implications and human costs (notably for women and children) of restrictive reproduction legislation. Moreover, her analysis offers insight into how the regime was perpetuated and the means by which compliance and complicity was systematically structured. Symbolic violence is violence wielded with tacit complicity between its victims and its agents, insofar as both remain unconscious of submitting to or wielding it- bourdieu. Pronatalism: domestic, state policy that encourages human reproduction. Population growth is viewed as essential for the continuity and prosperity od the nation , the society, etc. Achieved through a variety of means: incentives, coercion, etc. Culturally: childbearing/motherhood are taken as natural + central to women"s identities.
