Cropping women’s bodies to the womb reduces them to instruments of national reproduction

Evidence

As we pointed out before, the white women’s body is not represented in its entirety: the way in which parts of her body are cut off by the frame and her bodily integrity is not part of the representation, emphasize the part of her body that matters here: the womb. — Sarah Bracke and Luis Manuel Hernández Aguilar, “They Love Death as We Love Life”, 577

Categorization

• XREF: Visual-framing analysis echoes Yuval-Davis and Foucault on the body as the site where biopower is made legible.