Natalist propaganda always requires seizing control of women’s bodies

Evidence

This call, moreover, necessitates seizing control over “native German” women’s bodies. These desires, moreover, are also underscored by a historical intertextuality that must inform further readings of the image, that is, the background of Nazi propaganda with its own images, texts, and posters that called upon “Aryan women” to bear white children for Nazi Germany (Bock, 1983). — Sarah Bracke and Luis Manuel Hernández Aguilar, “They Love Death as We Love Life”, 599

Categorization

• XREF: Directly parallels the dress-and-modesty moral-panic material: bodily control as political signaling.
• SEED: Angle: ‘The Womb as Ballot Box’ — how pronatalist parties outsource racial policy to women’s bodies precisely because they can’t legislate it directly.