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000106678 100__ $$0(orcid)0000-0001-9537-9727$$aAliaga Lavrijsen, Jessica$$uUniversidad de Zaragoza
000106678 245__ $$aEctogenesis and representations of future motherings in Helen Sedgwick’s The Growing Season
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000106678 5203_ $$aAfter the boom of feminist science fiction in the 1970s, many such novels have tackled the different sociocultural understandings of gender and sexual reproduction. Conventionally, patriarchal thinking tends to posit a biological explanation for gender inequality: women are supposed to be child bearers and the primary caregivers, whereas men should provide for the family through their work. However, if men could share procreation, would these views change? A recent work of fiction exploring this question from multiple perspectives is Helen Sedgwick’s The Growing Season (2017), a novel that presents a near future in which babies can be grown in artificial wombs that can be carried around. As an analysis of the novel will show, The Growing Season creatively explores the existing tensions among contemporary understandings of motherhood and feminism(s), as well as developments in reproductive biotechnology, through the different perspectives offered by the heterodiegetic third-person narration and multiple focalisation. Ultimately, the voices of the different characters in the novel convey a polyhedral vision of possible future feminist motherhood(s) where ideas of personal freedom and codependency are radically reconceptualised—a rethinking that becomes especially important nowadays, for the biotechnological elements of this fictional dystopia are already a reality.
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000106678 593__ $$aLiterature and Literary Theory$$c2021$$dQ2
000106678 593__ $$aCultural Studies$$c2021$$dQ2
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000106678 7102_ $$13004$$2345$$aUniversidad de Zaragoza$$bDpto. Filolog.Inglesa y Alema.$$cÁrea Filología Inglesa
000106678 773__ $$g43, 1 (2021), 55-71$$pAtlantis rev. Asoc. esp. Estud. Anglo-Norteam.$$tATLANTIS-JOURNAL OF THE SPANISH ASSOCIATION OF ANGLO-AMERICAN STUDIES$$x0210-6124
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