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AbstrakThe paper examines the politics of motherhood through the family planning programs in two
locales in Bangladesh. It argues that the entire discourse centers round patriarchal ideas and
values in which women have little voice. The paper looks into the ideas of nationhood, the
development, security, environment, poverty discourses, which weave patriarchy into sinews
and fabric of the entire political and social milieu. Womens movements and organizations
however are making interventions by reshaping discourses and challenging the biological
model of motherhood through positing the social political model of motherhood. "
