(Ge)stating CyberMothers in Four E-mails and One Parable

Authors

  • Litsa Chatzivasileiou

Keywords:

Cyborgs, Virtual reality, Maternalism, Pregnancy

Abstract

This paper critiques gendered and phallocentric representations of the maternal body by constructing an ambiguous, hybrid materiality for it that draws from Haraway's cyborg. The paper employs the technological paradigm of the cyborg in order to counter other (obstetrical and visual) technologies of surveillance that (en)gender the maternal body

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Published

2001-10-01

Issue

Vol. 26 No. 1 (2001)

Section

Original Research

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