TY - JOUR
T1 - Splitting Women, Producing Biocitizens, and Vilifying Obamacare in the 2012 Presidential Campaign
AU - Arduser, Lora
AU - Koerber, Amy
PY - 2014/6/13
Y1 - 2014/6/13
N2 - This article examines the 2012 Republican presidential campaign, exposing the articulation of two incongruous discourses: arguments for increasingly strict regulations on women's reproductive rights and antiregulatory attacks on Obamacare. Drawing on articulation theory and on a Foucauldian understanding of biocitizenship, we argue that women's reproductive and sexual capacities were discursively disarticulated or split from their status as free citizens and rhetorically affiliated with Obamacare as both entities came to be seen as potentially dangerous.
AB - This article examines the 2012 Republican presidential campaign, exposing the articulation of two incongruous discourses: arguments for increasingly strict regulations on women's reproductive rights and antiregulatory attacks on Obamacare. Drawing on articulation theory and on a Foucauldian understanding of biocitizenship, we argue that women's reproductive and sexual capacities were discursively disarticulated or split from their status as free citizens and rhetorically affiliated with Obamacare as both entities came to be seen as potentially dangerous.
U2 - 10.1080/07491409.2014.914115
DO - 10.1080/07491409.2014.914115
M3 - Article
SP - 117
EP - 137
JO - Women's Studies in Communication/Taylor and Francis-Routledge
JF - Women's Studies in Communication/Taylor and Francis-Routledge
ER -