SOCI 255 Chapter Notes - Chapter reading: Surrogacy, Reproductive Rights, Natalism
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Reading: women and the biological reproduction of t. Women affect and are affected by the national and ethnic processes in several ways. One cannot dichotomize between natural and controlled reproduction. The central importance of women"s reproductive roles in ethnic and national discourses become apparent when one considers, that given the central role the myth of common origin plays into the construction of most ethnic and national collectivities. With the nazi law, pure blood can be contaminated even if one eighth or one sixteenth is the blood of others (jews, blacks) Those who are preoccupied with the purity of the race would also be preoccupied with the sexual relationships between members of different collectivities. Rabbi kahana forbit sexual relationships between jews and arabs. Legal permission for people from different races to have sex and marry was one of the first significant steps that the south. African government took in its own journey towards the abolition of apartheid.
