Gender, sexuality, and technology in male pregnancy

An analysis of Lee Mingwei and Virgil Wong's installation, POP! The First Human Male Pregnancy

Bibliographic Data

ID2393398
AuthorsMary Ingram-Waters (Arizona State University), Mary Ingram‐water (corresponding author), Mary Ingram‐Waters (Arizona State University, corresponding author)
Year2016
Volume19
Issue1-2
Pages138-155
Publication date2016-02-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSexualities (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1363-4607 • E-ISSN: 1461-7382
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1363460715583601
OpenAlexW2340548803
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited25

In this article, I examine performance artists Lee Mingwei and Virgil Wong's long-running online art installation project, POP! The First Human Male Pregnancy, as a liminal science fiction-like space in which the relationships between gender, sexuality, technology, and pregnancy, are illuminated and, at times, rearranged. Secondly, I look at user-generated content on YouTube left in response to one part of Lee and Wong's installation as a further site for meaning-making about male pregnancy. In both these sites, I argue that the meaning-making of male pregnancy is transgressive in its queering of pregnancy while remaining normative in its reflection of male/female binary gender categories

Biology · Human sexuality · Liminality · Meaning (existential · Normative · Pregnancy · Sociology · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · Philosophy · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Psychology · Reproductive Health and Technologies