Heidegger, Reproductive Technology, & The Motherless Ag
by Dana S. Belu
Palgrave Macmillan
2017
VII, 137 p., online resource.
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 Poiesis of Birth -- Epilogue: Heideggers Black Notebooks. Dana S. Belu combines Heideggers phenomenology of technology with feminist phenomenology in order to make sense of the increased technicization of womens reproductive bodies during conception, pregnancy, and birth.