Can the Fetus Speak?: Revolutionary Wombs, Body Politics, and Feminist Philosophy

Can the Fetus Speak?: Revolutionary Wombs, Body Politics, and Feminist Philosophy

Ariel Dorfman’s La última canción de Manuel Sendero (The Last Song of Manuel Sendero) and Carlos Fuentes’s Cristóbal Nonato (Christopher Unborn) explore conception, gestation, and birth as points of origin for humanity and citizenship alike by giving voice to life/lives that cannot speak for itse...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Nicole Sparling Barco
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2018-03-01
Series:Humanities
Subjects:
feminist phenomenology
feminist philosophy
maternal body
pregnant body
pregnant subject
fetus
fetal subject
fetal person
personhood
metaphor
Ariel Dorfman
Carlos Fuentes
Chile
Mexico
postmodern aesthetics
biopolitics
metaphysics
metaphysical metaphor
Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/7/1/24

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