Available Motherhood: Legal Technologies, "State of Exception" and the Dekinning of "War-Babies" in Bangladesh

Autor/in	Mookherjee, Nayanika
Titel	Available Motherhood: Legal Technologies, "State of Exception" and the Dekinning of "War-Babies" in Bangladesh
Quelle	In: Childhood: A Global Journal of Child Research, 14 (2007) 3, S.339-354 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0907-5682
DOI	10.1177/0907568207079213
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Females; Pregnancy; Family Planning; Rape; War; Adoption; Family Relationship; Mothers; Laws; Nongovernmental Organizations; Islam; Islamic Culture; Muslims; National Programs; Children; Public Policy; Family (Sociological Unit); Social Attitudes; Social Environment; Social Influences; Bangladesh + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Weibliches Geschlecht; Schwangerschaft; Familienplanung; Sexueller Missbrauch; Sexuelle Gewalt; Vergewaltigung; Krieg; Mother; Mutter; Law; Recht; Islam; Kultur; Muslim; Muslimin; nicht übertragen; Child; Kind; Kinder; Öffentliche Ordnung; Familie; Social attidude; Soziale Einstellung; Soziales Umfeld; Sozialer Einfluss; Bangladesch
Abstract	This article takes an ethnographical approach to explore the "state of exception" through which legal technologies of abortion and adoption of "war-babies" (children born as a result of wartime rapes) in the Bangladesh war enabled the dekinning and elimination of certain childhoods while the raped women were rekinned within legitimate heterosexual motherhoods. The role of the law in guaranteeing an erasure of blood relations ensured the regulation and availability of women's reproductive capacity and the categorization of the child by the state. Through this process, the Bangladeshi family planning programme was institutionalized, in the context of bilateral foreign aid relating to population control. (Contains 19 notes.) (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10