Abstract
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.
Zusammenfassung
In diesem Beitrag wird untersucht, inwiefern familialistische Repronormativität, Pro-Natalismus und reproduktive Autonomie als normative Modelle für reproduktive Lebensverläufe in der aktuellen deutschen Reproduktionspolitik zum Tragen kommen. Die Lebensverlaufsforschung hat die Reproduktion als Lebensbereich weitgehend übersehen. Wie andere, häufig betrachtete Lebensbereiche, unterliegt Reproduktion staatlicher Intervention sowie institutionalisierten normativen Annahmen darüber, ob, wann und wie Menschen Kinder bekommen sollten. Auf der Grundlage von Policy-Dokumenten und einer neuen Policy-Datenbank vergleicht dieser Beitrag den aktuellen Stand der Reproduktionspolitik in Deutschland in fünf Politikfeldern (Sexualerziehung, Verhütung, Schwangerschaftsabbruch, Reproduktionsmedizin und Schwangerschaftsfürsorge) mit idealtypischen normativen Orientierungen für reproduktive Lebensverläufe. Das Ergebnis ist ein systematischeres Verständnis der Mehrdimensionalität, die dem “life course modelling” (Leisering 2003) des Lebensbereichs Reproduktion inhärent ist.
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Funding
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Funder Name: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Funder Id: http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100001659
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Grant Number: 461709920
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Editorial: Social policies as life course policies – normative ideas, institutions and individual agency
- Social policies and the life course – a complex relationship re-visited
- Reproduction policy as life course policy: normative modelling of reproductive life courses in Germany
- Education systems as life course policies? The example of subnational educational regimes and young adults’ family transitions
- Coping with non-take-up of means-tested benefits: a qualitative longitudinal study on single parents’ life courses in French-speaking Switzerland
- Between life course regimes and biographical orientations: labour market trajectories of refugee mothers in Germany from a gendered perspective
- Coping with old-age poverty – the role of agency and different forms of societal support
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Editorial: Social policies as life course policies – normative ideas, institutions and individual agency
- Social policies and the life course – a complex relationship re-visited
- Reproduction policy as life course policy: normative modelling of reproductive life courses in Germany
- Education systems as life course policies? The example of subnational educational regimes and young adults’ family transitions
- Coping with non-take-up of means-tested benefits: a qualitative longitudinal study on single parents’ life courses in French-speaking Switzerland
- Between life course regimes and biographical orientations: labour market trajectories of refugee mothers in Germany from a gendered perspective
- Coping with old-age poverty – the role of agency and different forms of societal support