106678 20230519145430.0 doi 10.28914/Atlantis-2021-43.1.04 sideral 124482 ART-2021-124482 eng Aliaga Lavrijsen, Jessica Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0001-9537-9727 Ectogenesis and representations of future motherings in Helen Sedgwick’s The Growing Season 2021 Access copy available to the general public Unrestricted After 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. info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess by-nc-sa http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/es/ 0.405 2021 LINGUISTICS 174 / 195 = 0.892 2021 Q4 T3 0.117 2021 Literature and Literary Theory 2021 Q2 Cultural Studies 2021 Q2 0.4 2021 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 3004 345 Universidad de Zaragoza Dpto. Filolog.Inglesa y Alema. Área Filología Inglesa 43, 1 (2021), 55-71 Atlantis rev. Asoc. esp. Estud. Anglo-Norteam. ATLANTIS-JOURNAL OF THE SPANISH ASSOCIATION OF ANGLO-AMERICAN STUDIES 0210-6124 149436 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/106678/files/texto_completo.pdf Versión publicada 1093871 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/106678/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon icon Versión publicada oai:zaguan.unizar.es:106678 articulos driver 2023-05-18-14:17:30 ARTICLE