Reproduction policy as life course policy: Normative modelling of reproductive life courses in Germany
Hannah Zagel
EconStor Open Access Articles and Book Chapters, 2024, vol. 70, issue 1, 53 pages
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This paper investigates how familialist repronormativity, pro-natalism and reproductive autonomy feature as normative models for reproductive life courses in Germany’s current landscape of reproduction policies. Life course research has largely overlooked reproduction as a life course sphere, which is subject to state intervention and strong institutionalised normative assumptions about whether, when and how people should procreate. Drawing on policy documents and a new policy database, this paper compares the current state of reproduction policies in five policy fields (sex education, contraception, abortion, medically assisted reproduction and pregnancy care) to ideal-typical normative orientations towards reproductive life courses. The result is a more systematic understanding of the multidimensionality that is inherent to “life course modelling” (Leisering 2003) of the reproductive life sphere.
Keywords: Reproduction; reproduction policy; reproductive autonomy; familialism; Germany (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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