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Gender analysis of family planning: Beyond the feminist vs. population control debate

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  • Ines Smyth

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This paper tries to assess whether the recent adoption by population establishment agencies of feminist language and concerns also embodies feminist visions and values, or whether it hides fundamental differences. In particular, the paper warns that this adoption may simply be an expression of the kind of instrumentalism common to many development policies which are recommended for the benefit of women.For this purpose, the paper describes the historical context of the apparent changes in the treatment of women by the population establishment. It then analyses feminist notions of reproduction, science and reproductive technologies, and how these inform critiques of family planning programs. Since such critiques are not uniform, in content or degree, this analysis includes the different feminist traditions from which they derive.

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  • Ines Smyth, 1996. "Gender analysis of family planning: Beyond the feminist vs. population control debate," Feminist Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 2(2), pages 63-86.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:femeco:v:2:y:1996:i:2:p:63-86
    DOI: 10.1080/13545709610001707656
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    1. Iñaki Permanyer, 2010. "The Measurement of Multidimensional Gender Inequality: Continuing the Debate," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 95(2), pages 181-198, January.
    2. Iñaki Permanyer, 2013. "Are UNDP Indices Appropriate to Capture Gender Inequalities in Europe?," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 110(3), pages 927-950, February.
    3. Nandagiri, Rishita, 2021. "What’s so troubling about ‘voluntary’ family planning anyway? A feminist perspective," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 112535, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
    4. Daksha Parmar & Mohan Rao, 2023. "Population Control and Eugenics: Dhanvanthi Rama Rau and Margaret Sanger in the Making of India’s Family Planning Programme, 1930s–1960s," Indian Journal of Gender Studies, Centre for Women's Development Studies, vol. 30(3), pages 330-349, October.

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