Ectogenesis and representations of future motherings in Helen Sedgwick’s The Growing Season
Aliaga Lavrijsen, Jessica (Universidad de Zaragoza)
Resumen: 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.
Idioma: Inglés
DOI: 10.28914/Atlantis-2021-43.1.04
Año: 2021
Publicado en: ATLANTIS-JOURNAL OF THE SPANISH ASSOCIATION OF ANGLO-AMERICAN STUDIES 43, 1 (2021), 55-71
ISSN: 0210-6124
Factor impacto JCR: 0.405 (2021)
Categ. JCR: LINGUISTICS rank: 174 / 195 = 0.892 (2021) - Q4 - T3
Factor impacto CITESCORE: 0.4 - Social Sciences (Q3)
Factor impacto SCIMAGO: 0.117 - Literature and Literary Theory (Q2) - Cultural Studies (Q2)
Tipo y forma: Article (Published version)
Área (Departamento): Área Filología Inglesa (Dpto. Filolog.Inglesa y Alema.)
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Idioma: Inglés
DOI: 10.28914/Atlantis-2021-43.1.04
Año: 2021
Publicado en: ATLANTIS-JOURNAL OF THE SPANISH ASSOCIATION OF ANGLO-AMERICAN STUDIES 43, 1 (2021), 55-71
ISSN: 0210-6124
Factor impacto JCR: 0.405 (2021)
Categ. JCR: LINGUISTICS rank: 174 / 195 = 0.892 (2021) - Q4 - T3
Factor impacto CITESCORE: 0.4 - Social Sciences (Q3)
Factor impacto SCIMAGO: 0.117 - Literature and Literary Theory (Q2) - Cultural Studies (Q2)
Tipo y forma: Article (Published version)
Área (Departamento): Área Filología Inglesa (Dpto. Filolog.Inglesa y Alema.)
You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. You may not use the material for commercial purposes. If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same license as the original. Exportado de SIDERAL (2023-05-18-14:17:30)
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