| Summary: | Nationalizing Sex explains how governments worldwide have tried to nationalize sex and harness procreation as a tool of the state. By using case studies from France, Germany, Russia, India, and China it examines how population emerged as an object of governance and how natalist policy has changed over time and place. Nationalizing Sex analyzes the origins, growth, and development of fertility as a national and international political issue, the rise and fall of the narratives used to ascribe meaning to natality, and the global proliferation of oddly similar policies adopted by widely dissimila.
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