The Reproductive Politics

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Introduction3

Discussion3

The Ways that encouraged Reproduction in the United States3

Contrast and Comparison of Two Different Historical Periods5

The Child Labor in American History6

Conclusion7

Reproductive Politics

Introduction

Surrogacy and adoption, abortion and contraception were some of the issues that were faced by Wade-era v. Roe power, the contemporary description of the war was coined in the year of 1970s by feminists termed as 'reproductive politics'. Throughout the American history, the women's reproductive lives in the United Sates were shaped by forces like political, economic, racial and social. The medical, social, political, ethical, religious and legal dimensions of this hotly contested arena are explored by Reproductive Politics focused mainly on the United States (Solinger, 2001).

Reproductive technologies were assisted, and a range of topics from health care reform to contraception and abortion were considered by Rickie Solinger as she traces the historical roots of reproductive politics up through the present. The roles played in shaping reproductive rights by welfare and poverty policy, and the definition of fetal personhood were some of the most contentious questions that were tackled by Solinger as she provided quite surprising, balanced and informative answers towards them.

Discussion

The Ways that encouraged Reproduction in the United States

In the United States, the history is much more about the laws barring marriage and sex between whites and black. An integral role has been played by antimiscegenation laws in defining the enforcement of racial hierarchy and racial identity. Asians and blacks were the two groups that suffered the most from the established norms about race that were used by antimiscegenation statuses (Moran, 2003). Asian males were prevented by state constraints on intermarriage from having children, who would be American citizens by birth, establishing ties to the United States through marriage and by thwarting their sexuality to integrate into communities. In drawing the color line between whites and blacks, a singularly important role was played by the regulation of marriage and sex.

From assimilating through marriage to whites, the blacks were barred as the racial hierarchy was enforced through the way of statuses, once the color line was in place (Woliver, 2007). Any illegitimate offspring as black was classified by the one-drop rule that did not threaten white privilege and identity and contributed in continuation of interracial sex on a widespread basis. For having sex with white women, severe sanctions were faced by black men since white men could have their way with black women as their superiority was not jeopardized by the extramarital liaisons. Besides the clearance of racial identities of Asian by federal immigration law, they were subjected to harsh restrictions on intermarriage.

From the year 1893 to World War I, on American postcards were found a set of stereotypic images of African Americans. Public versions of group ideologies are filtered by a medium known as popular culture. Resistance, reproduction and production of racial ideologies were revealed central to the cultural artifacts. The popular culture can be well studied by the symbolic practices that compose the important contributions of the discourse of ...