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Ectogenesis and Mother as Machine

Communications and New Media Programme, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, National University of Singapore, and College of Arts and Architecture, Penn State University, USA

This article addresses the oft-neglected nexus between the mother and the machine, specifically in relation to the notion of ectogenesis (that is, conception, gestation and birth outside the maternal body). After a discussion of the technologies and the discourses of ectogenesis as symptomatic of what I call an ectogenetic desire, I move on to critically consider the work of Smith-Windsor on her own maternal experience with an incubator. This is followed by an evaluation of feminist writings on reproductive technologies, leading to a discussion of why the critical dichotomy between the maternal body and the machine needs to be reevaluated, to develop the possibility of a different ethics of/for the maternal body.

Key Words: biotechnology • cyberfeminism • motherhood • women’s bodies

Body & Society, Vol. 11, No. 3, 43-59 (2005)
DOI: 10.1177/1357034X05056190


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