Adoption, ART, and a Re-Conception of the Maternal Body
Toward Embodied Maternity
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22932637 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sarah-Vaughan Brakman (corresponding author), Sally J Scholz (0000-0002-1620-9576) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 54-73 |
| Publication date | 2006-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Hypatia (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0887-5367 • E-ISSN: 1527-2001 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2979/hyp.2006.21.1.54 |
| OpenAlex | W4233709459 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 5 |
We criticize a view of maternity that equates the natural with the genetic and biological and show how such a practice overdetermines the maternal body and the maternal experience for women who are mothers through adoption and ART (Assisted Reproductive Technologies). As an alternative, we propose a new framework designed to rethink maternal bodies through the lens of feminist embodiment. Feminist embodied maternity, as we call it, stresses the particularity of experience through subjective embodiment. A feminist embodied maternity emphasizes the physical relations of the subjective lived-body rather than the genetic or biological connections. Instead of universalizing claims about the maternal body, embodied maternity looks to communicable experiences and empathetic understanding.
Aesthetics · Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Human body · Natural (archaeology) · Sociology · Child Welfare and Adoption · Gender Studies · History · Medicine · Philosophy · Psychology · Reproductive Health and Technologies
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0.07 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2012 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |