The mass-production of quality ‘human material’: economic metaphors and compulsory sterilisation in Sweden.
Compulsory sterilisation was one of the most provocative aspects of the history of Swedish Social Policy. Much has been written about the topic from a social discourse perspective, while the economic discourse of compulsory sterilisation has not been fully recognised. This paper suggests that one ne...
| Publicado en: | Critical Discourse Studies Vol. 10; no. 2; pp. 172 - 187 |
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