History 2181A/B Study Guide - Final Guide: Psychological Trauma, Asexuality, Sildenafil

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Every country is interested in promoting themselves a strong nation, and want the citizens to have that strong sense of identity this can be created in many ways (usually male centered ways) The fit people are needed in order to build up a strong nation (white, middle-class, able bodied, intelligent, from british stock) Unfit people are seen as incapable of helping to build a strong nation and unable to contribute in places such as the workforce or the military: reproduction = stronger nation. The idea of connecting reproduction and nation building prioritizes and normalizes heterosexuality. It also reinforces marriage and the nuclear family, and results in the exclusion of other lifestyle arrangement (ex. It reduces women of the single status of producing children, it reduces them to their biology. It ignores the other kinds of contributions that women could make: enforces traditional gender roles.

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