1、 1450 单词, 8700 英文字符 , 3060 汉字 出处: Malson H, Swann C. Re-producing womans body: Reflections on the (dis)place(ments) of reproduction for (post)modern womenJ. Journal of Gender Studies, 2003, 12(3):191-201. 一、英文 Re-producing womans body: reections on the (dis)place(ments) of reproduction for (post)mod
2、ern women HELEN MALSON AND CATHERINE SWANN* ABSTRACT Across scientic and everyday discourses, reproduction has long been a dening feature of the category of woman as well as being a highly signicant aspect of womens lived experiences (Sayers, 1982; Phoenix et al., 1991; Nicolson & Ussher, 1992; Katr
3、ak, 1996). The reproductive body has gured as a mainstay of positivistic and universalistic construction of woman as a biologically real, quasi-homogeneous category of persons. Because of this, it seems important for reproduction to remain central to feminist research and theorising. However, it can
4、 be argued that in these allegedly post-feminist, gender-egalitarian times in Western and Westernised societies, reproduction now occupies a less central, all-encompassing place in (some) womens lives than it once did. At the same time, recent feminist theorising (Poovey, 1988; Riley 1988; Butler, 1
5、993) has disrupted modernist notions that the femininity of womens identities, experiences or perspectives could be guaranteed by the female body or by the reproductive capacities that have been central in dening that body. What then should be the place of reproduction in feminist theory and researc
6、h? The aim of this paper is to revisit this question in the contexts, rst, of postmodern feminist theorising of women and, second, of the allegedly post-feminist realities of womens lives. In doing so we seek to briey explore the key issues we see arising from the places and displacements of reproduction both in womens lives and in feminist theory and research. Introduction Reproductionits presence, absence, processes and experiencesha