Pregnant bodies, pregnant minds

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4367146
AutoresAmy Mullin (0000-0002-9926-7826, University of Toronto, autor de correspondencia)
Año2002
Volumen3
Número1
Páginas27-44
Fecha de publicación2002-04-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaFeminist Theory (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1464-7001 • E-ISSN: 1741-2773
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1460012002003001064
OpenAlexW2063499166
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas8
Referencias citadas15

Philosophers and artists frequently make use of metaphors drawn from female bodily experiences of pregnancy and childbirth to express intellectual or artistic creativity. While philosophical and artistic originality are presented as a kind of spiritual pregnancy, women's bodily pregnancies are often presented as at best intellectually or spiritually insignificant, to be valued solely for their products - physical children. I contrast the view of pregnancy found in philosophers such as Plato and Nietzsche, and artists such as Chagall, with an understanding of pregnancy influenced by feminist body art, and focus on the significance of the extent and pace of change that women experience during pregnancy

Aesthetics · Creativity · Originality · Pace · Pregnancy · Psychoanalysis · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · Philosophy · Psychology · Reproductive Health and Technologies · Simone de Beauvoir and Sartre · Social Psychology