Transantagonisms and the symbolic “woman” in U.S. settler reproductive rhetorics

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-1-2024

Abstract

Dominant reproductive rhetorics in the U.S. settler colonial nation-state, I argue, centralize a symbolic and universal womanhood that functions as a transantagonistic rhetoric. Transantagonism is the symbolic and material hostility that is mobilized to maintain cisnormativity and the colonial/modern binary gender system. I reveal how these settler reproductive rhetorics operate to maintain this system through an analysis of the Dobbs v. Jackson and L.W. v. Skrmetti court rulings.

Publication Source (Journal or Book title)

Quarterly Journal of Speech

First Page

470

Last Page

478

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