Overview
- 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. .
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
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.
Reviews
“It is an excellent work for anyone who wants to learn more about Heidegger, especially Heidegger's work on technology … . It is also an important work for feminist philosophers interested in IVF and/or surrogacy, since it provides a new way to understand their imbrication in the enframed and enframing world of modernity, a world, Belu shows, that both constructs and controls women as resources.” (Lorraine Markotic, Hypatia Reviews Online, hypatiareviews.org, November 2, 2020)
“How often do we come upon a book about Heidegger and the maternal body that puts some of Heidegger’s most ponderous musings on technology into clear English and applies them to something as concrete as childbirth? Dana S. Belu has done all this and more in an incisive analysis of both the promise and the risk that medical technology poses for the way we understand childbirth, motherhood and women. Don’t miss reading this important and topical book.” (John D. Caputo, Syracuse University, USA)“The ambition of this remarkable book is to recover a sense of the deeper meaning of the technification of conception, pregnancy and birth through a critical analysis of contemporary practice.” (Andrew Feenberg, Simon Fraser University, Canada)
“This truly groundbreaking and original book is a welcome addition to the field of feminist phenomenology as well as to Heidegger scholarship, and it is central to discussions in feminist and gender theory more generally, philosophy of medicine,and medical and bio-ethics.” (Lisa Folkmarson Käll, Stockholm University, Sweden)
"This project is so exciting...because it breaks with [the] mold...[and] engage[s] in larger questions related to birth. .. It is a needed and welcome addition to literatures on childbirth, pregnancy, and reproductive technology." (Allison B. Wolf, Simpson College, USA)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Dana S. Belu is Associate Professor of Philosophy & Chair of the Philosophy Department at California State University.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Heidegger, Reproductive Technology, & The Motherless Age
Authors: Dana S. Belu
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50606-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-50605-0Published: 29 March 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-84440-4Published: 21 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-50606-7Published: 18 March 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 137
Topics: Philosophy of Technology, Maternal and Child Health, Phenomenology