Visceral Acts: Gestationality as Feminist Figuration.
Reproductive labor has recently become the site of renewed theoretical interest. Despite this resurgence, visceral acts of procreative "life-making" continue to be undertheorized, particularly in social reproduction feminism. I argue that the vocabulary of "reproduction" is insufficient to capture t...
| Publicado en: | Signs: Journal of Women in Culture & Society Vol. 48; no. 1; pp. 229 - 256 |
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University of Chicago Press
Autumn2022
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