La (ri)proposta della maternità come destino "naturale" delle donne

The article explores the document from the Ministry of Health, entitled “National Plan for Fertility”, and shows its ideological significance and biopolitical value. First of all, it reflects on the potentially “nationalistic” or even racist implications of the statement that it is necessary to improve “indigenous” births instead of dealing rationally with the migration flows. Secondly, it reveals the attempt of presenting motherhood as women’s proper perspective, sistematically neglecting the subject of male and female parenthood, and reducing a complex problem to the idea of women’s “destiny”, i.e. if not a biological, yet a “natural” fate.