Broken Pregnancies

Welsh, Talia

doi:10.4324/9780429462542-13

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“…Franklin, 2022) and are also entering the space of the socio-material making of reproduction. Recent technological advancement within reproductive health promises 'pregnancy for everyone' as the 'broken reproductive body' can (partly) be fixed through processes of assisted reproduction or IVF (Welsh, 2019). Prior 'infertile' bodies (either medically or socially) now have the possibility to become fertile and pregnant (Mamo, 2007 ;Welsh, 2019 ).…”

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“…Recent technological advancement within reproductive health promises 'pregnancy for everyone' as the 'broken reproductive body' can (partly) be fixed through processes of assisted reproduction or IVF (Welsh, 2019). Prior 'infertile' bodies (either medically or socially) now have the possibility to become fertile and pregnant (Mamo, 2007 ;Welsh, 2019 ). Within this technoscientific development (some), queer bodies become fertility patients, not (or not only) because of their physical conditions but because of their sexuality (Mamo, 2007).…”

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“…For example, through broader 'FemTech' developments, possible futures become intertwined with medical practices, in which reproductive bodies become spaces for constant repairs (Welsh, 2019). Infertile bodies are only temporarily 'broken' as, through technological intervention, everybody can get pregnant (Welsh, 2019)-in theory. In practice, however, some bodies will never become pregnant, partly by their own choice, but also due to the social and local situation they are moving within.…”

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Fertile Becoming: Reproductive Temporalities with/in Tracking Technologies

Reime,

Cohn,

Tsaknaki

2023

FemTech

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Through close analysis of fertility and menstrual cycle tracking apps, this contribution explores how reproductive bodies, and their temporalities are understood, made and reshaped with and through technologies. We rethink reproductive temporalities through the lens of Kafer's (2013) and Forlano's (2017) notion of queer/crip time to account for the different and individual temporalities of bodies. By tuning into the everyday rituals and temporalities that emerge when living with real-time data around sociocultural norms of reproduction (Forlano, 2017), we make visible how fertile bodies are in a constant state of becoming. Empirically, we home in on the processes of becoming or unbecoming fertile and engagements of self-tracking as well as practices of self-care by drawing on data inquired through digital ethnographic methods. To contextualize the analysis within broader, (sub-)cultural imaginaries of reproductive futures, we combine walkthroughs of apps (Light et al., 2018) with analysis of discussions and data-sharing practices on social network sites dedicated to fertility tracking and queer/non-binary experiences of reproduction.

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Fertile Becoming: Reproductive Temporalities with/in Tracking Technologies

Reime,

Cohn,

Tsaknaki

2023

FemTech

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The Affirmative Culture of Healthy Self-Care: A Feminist Critique of the Good Health Imperative

Welsh¹

2020

IJFAB: International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethic

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Feminist critiques highlight how neoliberal ideologies withdraw attention from the social and the political toward the cult of individual hard work, thereby obscuring oppression and economic disenfranchisement as merely matters for individuals to “overcome” with hard work. Individuals should see their health as a matter of personal responsibility making disability, class, and gender merely private matters to attend to with proper healthy self-care. In this paper, I expand upon feminist philosophy to think about healthy self-care as requiring a delayed body fantasy and to ask if we might see healthy self-care like a morally neutral hobby rather than a mark of moral and social goodness.

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Broken Pregnancies

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Fertile Becoming: Reproductive Temporalities with/in Tracking Technologies

Fertile Becoming: Reproductive Temporalities with/in Tracking Technologies

The Affirmative Culture of Healthy Self-Care: A Feminist Critique of the Good Health Imperative

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