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« Parking the settlers: Amy Jo Dugan-Kimball, Indigenizing the National Park Service: Unlearning Settler Colonial History, MA dissertation, Montana State University, 2024
Adapting settler discourse on climate change: Faisal Bin Islam, Lindsay Naylor, James Edward Bryan, Dennis J. Coker, ‘Climate coloniality and settler colonialism: Adaptation and indigenous futurities’, Political Geography, 114, 2024 »

Mobilising settler womanhood: Ashley Noel Mack, ‘Transantagonisms and the symbolic “woman” in U.S. settler reproductive rhetorics’, Quarterly Journal of Speech, 2024

21Jul24

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.

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