Dana S. Belu combines Heidegger's phenomenology of technology with feminist phenomenology in order to make sense of the increased technicization of women's reproductive bodies during conception, pregnancy, and birth.
Dana S. Belu combines Heidegger's phenomenology of technology with feminist phenomenology in order to make sense of the increased technicization of women's reproductive bodies during conception, pregnancy, and birth.
It is an excellent work for anyone who wants to learn more about Heidegger, especially Heidegger's work on technology ... . It is also an important work for feminist philosophers interested in IVF and/or surrogacy, since it provides a new way to understand their imbrication in the enframed and enframing world of modernity, a world, Belu shows, that both constructs and controls women as resources. (Lorraine Markotic, Hypatia Reviews Online, hypatiareviews.org, November 2, 2020)
Dana S. Belu is Associate Professor of Philosophy & Chair of the Philosophy Department at California State University.
Chapter 1: Introduction: Phenomenology, Feminism, &Reproductive Technology
Chapter 2: The Paradox of Ge-stell
Chapter 3: Enframing the Womb: A Phenomenological Interpretation of Artificial Conception and Surrogacy in the Motherless Age
Chapter 4: Mastering the Spark of Life: Between Aristotle and Heidegger on Artificial Conception
Chapter 5: On the Harnessing of Birth in the Technological Age
Chapter 6: The Poiesis of Birth
Epilogue: Heidegger's Black Notebooks