welfare reform and sexual regulation

In other words, biopower does not consistently represent liberal governmentality when it is found to be less useful than death-threatening power in a context of population control (exemplified by the holocaust context, which Agamben (1998) succinctly demonstrates). [...] paternafare understood as explicit sovereign authority working in parallel to the logic of biopower (elevating the quality of the population by discouraging poor women's reproductive rights) might be an apt example of Foucault's framework.