Heidegger, Reproductive Technology, & The Motherless Age

Dana S. Belu combines Heidegger's phenomenology of technology with feminist phenomenology in order to make sense of the increased technicization of women's reproductive bodies during conception, pregnancy, and birth.

Examines the use and proliferation of advanced reproductive technologies through the lens of Heidegger's phenomenology of technology. Combines Heidegger's phenomenology of technology with feminist interpretations of advanced reproductive technologies Suggests feminist forms of maternal resistance, alternatives to enframed birth and argues in favor of maternal agency and empathy during childbirth. .

Autorentext

Dana S. Belu is Associate Professor of Philosophy & Chair of the Philosophy Department at California State University.

Inhalt

Chapter 1: Introduction: Phenomenology, Feminism, &Reproductive Technology.- Chapter 2: The Paradox of Ge-stell.- Chapter 3: Enframing the Womb: A Phenomenological Interpretation of Artificial Conception and Surrogacy in the Motherless Age.- Chapter 4: Mastering the Spark of Life: Between Aristotle and Heidegger on Artificial Conception.- Chapter 5: On the Harnessing of Birth in the Technological Age.- Chapter 6: The Poisis of Birth.- Epilogue: Heidegger's Black Notebooks