Abstrak
The paper examines the politics of motherhood through the family planning programs in twolocales in Bangladesh. It argues that the entire discourse centers round patriarchal ideas andvalues in which women have little voice. The paper looks into the ideas of nationhood, thedevelopment, security, environment, poverty discourses, which weave patriarchy into sinewsand fabric of the entire political and social milieu. Womens movements and organizationshowever are making interventions by reshaping discourses and challenging the biologicalmodel of motherhood through positing the social political model of motherhood.