The Business of Being Made

Exploring the Production of Temporalities in Assisted Reproductive Technologies

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ID5013375
AuthorsKatie Gentile (0000-0002-5486-1186, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, corresponding author)
Year2013
Volume14
Issue4
Pages255-276
Publication date2013-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueStudies in Gender and Sexuality (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1524-0657 • E-ISSN: 1940-9206
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/15240657.2013.848318
OpenAlexW2014331746
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited43

As with other forms of biotechnology, assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) have become a normative part of women's reproductive health care with critical impact on women's subjectivities. Yet as these technologies have proliferated, feminist and cultural theories have taken up the challenges of theorizing the subjectivities produced through these interventions, while psychoanalysis has remained relatively mute, and certainly uncritical. This article uses interview research conducted by a psychoanalyst with women and men who went through some form of ART. Of particular interest is the creation of liminal and asynchronous temporalities that situate people in spaces marked by a particular futurity of being “not yet pregnant.” Within this uncertainty, temporal forms of affect regulation emerge for self-preservation, especially for survivors of sexual trauma, for whom ART interventions and a “confusion of tongues” surrounding them can be profoundly retraumatizing

Aesthetics · Art · Epistemology · Human sexuality · Liminality · Normative · Political science · Pregnancy · Psychological intervention · Reproductive health · Reproductive technology · Sociology · Temporalities · The arts · Visual arts · Anthropology · Child Welfare and Adoption · Gender Studies · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · Philosophy · Psychology · Reproductive Health and Technologies

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