Fertile Visions
«This is an intellectually muscular approach to pregnancy (deliberately re-presented as “the uterus”), and a highly original conception of the uterus as narrative space. Carruthers deploys phenomenology to focus on the uterus as distinct from motherhood/maternity, and pursues her topic via wide-ranging and impressive research in all the areas of film studies touched upon.»
Kate Ince, Professor of French and Visual Studies, University of Birmingham, UK
Fertile Visions conceptualises the uterus as a narrative space so that the female reproductive body can be understood beyond the constraints of a gendered analysis. Unravelling pregnancy from notions of maternity and mothering demands that we think differently about narratives of reproduction. Les mer
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Detaljer
- Forlag
- Bloomsbury Academic USA
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 240
- ISBN
- 9781501358562
- Utgivelsesår
- 2021
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«This is an intellectually muscular approach to pregnancy (deliberately re-presented as “the uterus”), and a highly original conception of the uterus as narrative space. Carruthers deploys phenomenology to focus on the uterus as distinct from motherhood/maternity, and pursues her topic via wide-ranging and impressive research in all the areas of film studies touched upon.»
Kate Ince, Professor of French and Visual Studies, University of Birmingham, UK