Foucault: Biopower and China’s One Child Policy

Readings

Foucault: The History of Sexuality, Vol 1 (read pp. 134-159)

Lazzarato: From Biopower to Biopolitics

Lazzarato: Biopolitics/Bioeconomics

Biopolitics in China: An Introduction

Kane and Choi: China’s One Child Family Policy

Family Planning. (The Chinese government’s position)

Illegal Births and Legal Abortions: (Quite a good piece from 2005 discussing the policy and some of the moral issues involved, published by the U.S. National Institutes of Health).

NY Times Opinion Page: China’s Brutal One Child Policy

NY Times Opinion Page: China’s One Child Policy Should Be Scrapped

China-mike.: One-child-policy (Informal but good artical that does a fairly good job with the history of the policy, though a little too hard on Mao.)

CNN: China Eases One-child-policy

NY Times: Hurdles in China’s Vow To Relax One Child Policy

How-Chinas-one-child-policy-overhauled-the-status-and-prospects-of-girls-like-me. (Article claiming that one child poilcy has had a positive impact on rights of women and girls.)