Politik och fantasi i svensk reproduktionspolitik

In March 2012 the Swedish parliament asked the government to draft a law that will allow single women access to in-vitro fertilization and donor insemination. The decision represents a partial dissolution of the long-standing assumption in Swedish politics that two parents are necessary to provide...

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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:47756b91aec3440ab871bf5df53c128d2021-12-01T00:06:19ZPolitik och fantasi i svensk reproduktionspolitik10.7146/kkf.v0i1-2.284992245-6937https://doaj.org/article/47756b91aec3440ab871bf5df53c128d2015-11-01T00:00:00Zhttps://tidsskrift.dk/KKF/article/view/28499https://doaj.org/toc/2245-6937 In March 2012 the Swedish parliament asked the government to draft a law that will allow single women access to in-vitro fertilization and donor insemination. The decision represents a partial dissolution of the long-standing assumption in Swedish politics that two parents are necessary to provide what is ‘in the child’s best interest’. This article comprises a psychoanalytically informed discourse analysis of the construction of the single mother in this policy area. It is argued that the inclusion of single women was made possible by a redrawing of the boundary between ‘good’ and ‘bad’ mothers so as to displace the characteristics that previously disqualified the entire group of single women from motherhood to a particular subset of the group: those who do not make their babies in the ‘right’ way or with the ‘right’ intentions. The ‘good’ single mother, on the other hand, is framed along the lines of (hetero)repronormativity: she is expected to desire a man in her life, as well as harboring a wish to provide her children with male role-models and a right to know who the sperm donor is. Helena Tinnerhold LjungbergThe Royal Danish LibraryarticleAssisted reproductionsingle mothersheteronormativitydiscourse analysispsychoanalysisstate policySocial SciencesHDAENNBSVKvinder, Køn & Forskning, Iss 1-2 (2015)
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topic Assisted reproduction
single mothers
heteronormativity
discourse analysis
psychoanalysis
state policy
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spellingShingle Assisted reproduction
single mothers
heteronormativity
discourse analysis
psychoanalysis
state policy
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Helena Tinnerhold Ljungberg
Politik och fantasi i svensk reproduktionspolitik
description In March 2012 the Swedish parliament asked the government to draft a law that will allow single women access to in-vitro fertilization and donor insemination. The decision represents a partial dissolution of the long-standing assumption in Swedish politics that two parents are necessary to provide what is ‘in the child’s best interest’. This article comprises a psychoanalytically informed discourse analysis of the construction of the single mother in this policy area. It is argued that the inclusion of single women was made possible by a redrawing of the boundary between ‘good’ and ‘bad’ mothers so as to displace the characteristics that previously disqualified the entire group of single women from motherhood to a particular subset of the group: those who do not make their babies in the ‘right’ way or with the ‘right’ intentions. The ‘good’ single mother, on the other hand, is framed along the lines of (hetero)repronormativity: she is expected to desire a man in her life, as well as harboring a wish to provide her children with male role-models and a right to know who the sperm donor is.
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