Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/318017 
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2024
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[Journal:] Zeitschrift für Sozialreform [ISSN:] 2366-0295 [Volume:] 70 [Issue:] 1 [Publisher:] De Gruyter [Place:] Berlin [Year:] 2024 [Pages:] 31-53
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De Gruyter, Berlin
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.
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Reproduction
reproduction policy
reproductive autonomy
familialism
Germany
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Article
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Accepted Manuscript (Postprint)

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