Conception
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5954227 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Emily Apter (0000-0002-4986-1747, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 172 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 122-135 |
| Publication date | 2025-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Representations (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0734-6018 • E-ISSN: 1533-855X |
| Publisher | University of California Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1525/rep.2025.172.8.122 |
| OpenAlex | W7103990064 |
| Language | EN |
Straddling the fields of law, philosophy, and reproductive justice, this essay explores how the law understands conception through the notion of the contracepted person. A figurehead of "personhood absolutism," this hypothetical ghost-being is foreclosed by contraceptive medication yet nonetheless "lives" in a blurry, imaginary legal forcefield of the unconceived: it is strategically assigned persona-hood, along with some kind of legal status, if not actual positive legal rights and powers
Field (mathematics · Legal realism · Legal research · Reproduction · The Imaginary
| Highly cited | No |
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