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

• Main Author: Yap, Priscilla Shi Han
• Other Authors: Park Hyung Wook
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/74220
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

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...