The biopolitics of birth control technologies : controlling women’s reproduction in Singapore (1960s – 1980s)

This paper uses a discourse analytic perspective to explore the historical landscape of the family planning program shaped in Singapore. Bringing modern birth control technologies into the foreground, this paper seeks to explore these biopolitical devices that existed as powerful tools of the state...

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Main Author: Yap, Priscilla Shi Han
Other Authors: Park Hyung Wook
Format: Final Year Project
Language:English
Published: 2018
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spelling sg-ntu-dr.10356-742202019-12-10T14:07:07Z The biopolitics of birth control technologies : controlling women’s reproduction in Singapore (1960s – 1980s) Yap, Priscilla Shi Han Park Hyung Wook School of Humanities and Social Sciences DRNTU::Humanities This paper uses a discourse analytic perspective to explore the historical landscape of the family planning program shaped in Singapore. Bringing modern birth control technologies into the foreground, this paper seeks to explore these biopolitical devices that existed as powerful tools of the state in the social regulation of reproduction. Using a biopolitical framework, the paper examines the politically vested reproductive female body. The paper posits that the site of the female body was filled with power interests. This paper demonstrates how the reproductive bodies of Singaporean women had been problematized in policy discourse and debates through the construction of knowledge, allowing the body to manifest as an easy target for manipulation. This paper examines the strategies and mechanisms through which human life processes (which in this case: - fertility and reproduction control) are managed under regimes of authority over knowledge, power, and the processes of subjectivised. While the state was interested in controlling women’s reproductive power and the developmental project, women were not objects of contraception but rather agents interpreting the family planning program. Introduction of modern technologies have both regulated and liberated women, reshaping gender relations. Bachelor of Arts 2018-05-09T08:49:13Z 2018-05-09T08:49:13Z 2018 Final Year Project (FYP) http://hdl.handle.net/10356/74220 en Nanyang Technological University 63 p application/pdf
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Yap, Priscilla Shi Han
The biopolitics of birth control technologies : controlling women’s reproduction in Singapore (1960s – 1980s)
description This paper uses a discourse analytic perspective to explore the historical landscape of the family planning program shaped in Singapore. Bringing modern birth control technologies into the foreground, this paper seeks to explore these biopolitical devices that existed as powerful tools of the state in the social regulation of reproduction. Using a biopolitical framework, the paper examines the politically vested reproductive female body. The paper posits that the site of the female body was filled with power interests. This paper demonstrates how the reproductive bodies of Singaporean women had been problematized in policy discourse and debates through the construction of knowledge, allowing the body to manifest as an easy target for manipulation. This paper examines the strategies and mechanisms through which human life processes (which in this case: - fertility and reproduction control) are managed under regimes of authority over knowledge, power, and the processes of subjectivised. While the state was interested in controlling women’s reproductive power and the developmental project, women were not objects of contraception but rather agents interpreting the family planning program. Introduction of modern technologies have both regulated and liberated women, reshaping gender relations.
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title The biopolitics of birth control technologies : controlling women’s reproduction in Singapore (1960s – 1980s)
title_short The biopolitics of birth control technologies : controlling women’s reproduction in Singapore (1960s – 1980s)
title_full The biopolitics of birth control technologies : controlling women’s reproduction in Singapore (1960s – 1980s)
title_fullStr The biopolitics of birth control technologies : controlling women’s reproduction in Singapore (1960s – 1980s)
title_full_unstemmed The biopolitics of birth control technologies : controlling women’s reproduction in Singapore (1960s – 1980s)
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