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Tammeveski, Peeter The Pennsylvania State University 2005 해외박사(DDOD)
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This dissertation inquires into how and why nation-states as interactive collectives attempt to control women's bodies by regulating their fertility. My theoretical framework draws on feminist, critical race, and organismic theories of the state, and on Foucault's concept of biopower. I question the disembodied conception of the nation-state and maintain that nation-states seek to regulate women's bodies and fertility, because states are imagined to have some characteristics of biological organisms and because they have racial and patriarchal interests. In the name of protecting their organismic integrity, patriarchal states sanction gendered and racialized hierarchies of exclusion and privilege, which affect women in fundamental ways. The empirical part of the dissertation employs ethnographic and historical methods in conjunction with discourse analysis. I analyze how the state-mediated fertility discourse of 'increase and multiply' changed throughout the life-course of a group of Estonian women, and how ideas about the racial origin of Estonians contributed to these changes. I also examine how women promoted, negotiated, and resisted the discourse which sought to transform Estonian women's bodies into public territory, charged with the task to 'naturally' reproduce and strengthen the ethnoracial state. The interview participants were born in the 1910's and 1920's and reached young adulthood in interwar Estonian Republic (1918--1940). They fled from the Soviet occupation of Estonia and spent a few years in refugee camps in Germany. Around 1950, they resettled in the United States, spending the rest of their lives in America (1950--2003). The main finding of the empirical section is that the increase and multiply discourse was used in interwar Republic (1918--1940) and after 1991 (the post-Soviet independence period); however, it was not used in the exile/Soviet occupation period (1945--1991). This pattern can best be explained in reference to Foucault's thesis that nation-states have forged a special relationship between the individual's body, reproduction, population size, and biopower. In other words, the nation-state has become one of the few contexts in the West within which the otherwise private issue of family size can be discussed publicly. Because Estonians did not have their own nation-state between 1945--1991, the exiles did not engage in a public discourse about the national and political significance of having more children.