Configuring maternal, foetal and infant embodiment in the context of biopolitics
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Configuring maternal, foetal and infant embodiment in the
context of biopolitics
Deborah Lupton, Department of Sociology and Social Policy, University
of Sydney
My related research
• Biopolitical dimensions of medicine and public health• Risk and everyday life• First-time parenthood: women’s experiences of
pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding and infant care• Mothers’ concepts of health in their infants and young
children• Emotion and maternal carework • Infant embodiment: representations, meanings,
practices• The social worlds of the preborn organism
Time magazine heralds the advent of IVF
Embryo at 7 weeks of gestation
7-week embryo specimen from ectopic pregnancy, Wikipedia
The Visible Embryo Project
The commodification of preborn body images
‘Embryo Princess’ from the animation series ‘Adventure Time’
Lennart Nilsson pic 1
Lennart Nilsson pic 2
Lennart Nilsson pic 3
3/4D obstetric ultrasound
Pro-life pic 1
Pro-life pic 2
Angel foetuses with embryos
God’s Little Ones
Pro-life display dolls
BodyWorlds Exhibition
Misbehaving Mums to Be
US Time magazine, 21 May 2012
Theoretical perspectives
• Risk society, reflexive modernisation, individualisation (Beck and Beck-Gernsheim)
• Biopolitics, governmentality and pregnancy/motherhood: ‘reproductive asceticism’ (Weir, Ettore, Ruhl)
Theoretical perspectives 2
• Gendered embodiment, permeability, liquidities, ambiguity, Self/Other (Grosz, Shildrick, Kristeva, Young, Longhurst)
• Visualising culture, technologies and the preborn body (Duden, Petchesky, Hartouni, Casper)
Blurring of boundaries of bodies/selves
maternal body/self
child/infant/foetus/embryo/ pre-conceived embryo