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Journal articles on the topic "Monstrous reproduction"

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Dahl, Ulrika. "(The promise of) Monstrous Kinship? Queer Reproduction and the Somatechnics of Sexual and Racial Difference." Somatechnics 8, no. 2 (September 2018): 195–211. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/soma.2018.0250.

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This article considers the figure of the monster and monstrosity as a phenomenon as an entangled effect of kinship and reproduction, and thus as conveying specific understandings of gender, sexuality and race. While non-heterosexual reproduction and family-making has long been viewed as monstrous, increasing LGBTQ rights and recognition has instead insisted on its normality. Engaging with feminist and queer monster theory, and building on ethnographic research in Stockholm, Sweden, this article considers the monstrous remains within contemporary queer kinship. In particular, it proposes that when choice and intent rather than biological ‘facts’ constitute the foundation of (queer) family, sexual and racial difference does not cease to exist, but rather, re-emerges as monstrous attachments and embodiments. To sketch a larger argument about the potential limits of ideas about social construction, the article hones in on two examples. First, it shows that gestation and childbirth, as monstrous embodiments, can pose problems for families that insist on parental equality through the perceived sameness of shared intent. Secondly it proposes that in the context of Sweden, reproduction through donor-insemination is built on a cultural idea of white sperm as both neutral and desirable. These examples, the article suggest, point to some remaining irreconcilable dimensions embedded in the fantasy of queer kinship that, like monsters, haunt its queer normative forms. In closing, it argues for a reconsideration of hopeful monstrosities by considering both queer reproduction and the sexual and racial differences with which it inevitably engages can instead be understood as somatechnical, as kinship technologies that are inevitably entangled in the biopolitics of (queer) nation-making and its natrualised whiteness.

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Rivera, Dina Lisel. "Gothic Childbearing, Monstrous Reproduction, and a Science Fiction Turn: Rosario Ferré’s “La muñeca menor” and Pedro Cabiya’s “Relato del piloto”." Catedral Tomada. Revista de crítica literaria latinoamericana 7, no. 13 (January 8, 2020): 281–326. http://dx.doi.org/10.5195/ct/2019.414.

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The thirty years between the 1972 publication of Rosario Ferré’s short story “La muñeca menor” and Pedro Cabiya’s 2003 novella “Relato del piloto que dijo adiós con la mano” span the cultural, political, and economic “shift” from a “regulatory state” to a neoliberal global order that, per Rebekah Sheldon’s analysis, has articulated and contextualized similar contrasting takes on biological and material reproduction. Focusing on their transformed imaginary of “monstrous” reproduction, I explore in this paper how the texts’ Gothic and SF modalizations refract local conditions as well as critical elements of that shift, full of increasingly urgent and extreme consequences in Puerto Rico, and even farther afield.

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Sharp, Sabine Ruth. "Salt Fish Girl and “Hopeful Monsters”: Using Monstrous Reproduction to Disrupt Science Fiction’s Colonial Fantasies." Contemporary Women's Writing 13, no. 2 (July 2019): 222–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cww/vpz022.

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Abstract The revival of the Frankenstein origin myth has left science fiction’s relationship to colonialism undertheorized. More recent creative interventions have, however, challenged the genre’s colonialist legacy: two works that achieve this are Larissa Lai’s novel Salt Fish Girl (2002) and Hiromi Goto’s short story “Hopeful Monsters” (2004). Using different forms of unruly reproduction—strange births, recurring histories, and eclectic intertextuality—these texts unravel the tangled histories of science fiction and colonialism. Using tropes of repetition and mutation, Lai and Goto trace not a myth of origins but the texture of interwoven histories of gendered and racialized oppression. Monstrous patchworks of texts, these works interrogate the boundaries between science fiction, myth, folklore, and fantasy, showing these generic distinctions to have been buttressed by colonialist discourses.

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OLSZYNKO-GRYN, JESSE, and PATRICK ELLIS. "‘A machine for recreating life’: an introduction to reproduction on film." British Journal for the History of Science 50, no. 3 (September 2017): 383–409. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0007087417000632.

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AbstractReproduction is one of the most persistently generative themes in the history of science and cinema. Cabbage fairies, clones and monstrous creations have fascinated filmmakers and audiences for more than a century. Today we have grown accustomed not only to the once controversial portrayals of sperm, eggs and embryos in biology and medicine, but also to the artificial wombs and dystopian futures of science fiction and fantasy. Yet, while scholars have examined key films and genres, especially in response to the recent cycle of Hollywood ‘mom coms’, the analytic potential of reproduction on film as a larger theme remains largely untapped. This introduction to a special issue aims to consolidate a disparate literature by exploring diverse strands of film studies that are rarely considered in the same frame. It traces the contours of a little-studied history, pauses to consider in greater detail a few particularly instructive examples, and underscores some promising lines of inquiry. Along the way, it introduces the six original articles that constituteReproduction on Film.

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Bloomfield, Brian P., and Theo Vurdubakis. "On the naming of monsters." Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: An International Journal 33, no. 7 (September 15, 2014): 575–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/edi-04-2012-0028.

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Purpose – The pupose of this paper is twofold. First, to consider the cultural reception of recent developments in genetic technology and human reproduction, particularly in relation to the prospect of human cloning and the advent of the “designer human”; and second, to explore the ways in which public discussion of these developments presuppose and recast issues of diversity, difference and (in)equality. Design/methodology/approach – The research draws upon UK print media sources (broadsheet and tabloid newspapers) over the past two decades to examine the ways in which cultural expectations concerning developments in reproductive technology are commonly expressed. It does not aim at a quantitative examination of the content of what was said; rather it seeks to explore how it was said and thus the discursive resources that were employed in doing so. Findings – The paper suggests that images of “technology” function simultaneously as “mirrors of society”, providing a means for articulating and rhetorically rehearsing the various philosophical antinomies and moral conflicts that characterize social organization. Originality/value – The paper adopts a novel approach to the question of diversity, difference and (in)equality by considering the “monsters” discursively associated with recent developments in genetic and reproductive technology as well as the “monstrous” forms of social organization that they foreshadow.

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Stachurski, Anne. "Managing the Monstrous Feminine - Regulating the Reproductive BodyManaging the Monstrous Feminine - Regulating the Reproductive Body." Nursing Standard 20, no. 26 (March 8, 2006): 26. http://dx.doi.org/10.7748/ns2006.03.20.26.26.b434.

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Thomson, Michael. "Legislating for the Monstrous: Access To Reproductive Services and the Monstrous Feminine." Social & Legal Studies 6, no. 3 (September 1997): 401–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/096466399700600305.

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Francus, Marilyn. "The Monstrous Mother: Reproductive Anxiety in Swift and Pope." ELH 61, no. 4 (1994): 829–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/elh.1994.0034.

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Stachurski, Anne. "Managing the monstrous feminine regulating the reproductive body Jane M Ussher Managing the monstrous feminine regulating the reproductive body|Routledge|219pp|£15.950 415 32811X041532811." Nursing Standard 20, no. 26 (March 8, 2006): 26. http://dx.doi.org/10.7748/ns.20.26.26.s32.

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Smith, Lesley. "Monstrous births – and how to avoid them." Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care 33, no. 3 (July 1, 2007): 219–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1783/147118907781004985.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Monstrous reproduction"

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Porter, Whitney. "Monstrous Reproduction: The Power of the Monstered Maternal in Graphic Form." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1493050047052178.

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Olsen, Lee Y. "Imagination and Deformation: Monstrous Maternal Perversions of Natural Reproduction in Early Modern England." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/203494.

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IMAGINATION AND DEFORMATION: MONSTROUS MATERNAL PERVERSIONS OF NATURAL REPRODUCTION IN EARLY MODERN ENGLAND examines the creation in early modern English reproductive, teratological, wonder, and fictional literature of the "monstrous mother"--a female reproductive figure capable of generating both fetal and non-fetal forms of offspring through the power of her imagination. While earlier critics have identified monstrous mothers in early modern English literature--figures who produce grotesque and/or excessive offspring, deny or obstruct nurture, commit infanticide, and sometimes exhibit their own physical deformities--such mothers require offspring to expose their monstrosity. That is, deformed, numerous, starving, sickly, or slain bodies testify to their mothers' monstrous desires, reproductive natures, and parenting practices. In contrast, I argue that monstrous maternity develops independently of the birth of offspring, and specifically, manifests during conception and pregnancy, before women deliver issue that exposes their monstrous maternal inclinations. While monstrous maternal power primarily develops from women's desires, it also remains embodied within conceiving and pregnant women, and thus permits women to generate not only deformed offspring and power, but also new, monstrous forms of generation.While monstrous mothers exercise powerful imaginative force that permits them to produce numerous types of "monstrous births," they also face antagonistic attempts to suppress their monstrous tendencies. Yet the authors of regulatory imagination texts, particularly sixteenth- and seventeenth-century obstetrical manuals, are repeatedly confounded by the monstrous mother's ability to innovate her imaginative influence when confronted with attempts to limit it. Thus, antagonism actually augments monstrous maternal power. Early modern fictional literature depicts the growth and innovation of monstrous maternity even as practitioners, husbands, and communities attempt to suppress it. Fictional works therefore re-theorize regulatory imagination theory, as they persistently underscore the uncontrollable nature of monstrous mothers and monstrous maternal reproduction.

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Nakamura, Miri. "Monstrous bodies : gender and reproductive science in modern Japanese literature /." May be available electronically:, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/login?COPT=REJTPTU1MTUmSU5UPTAmVkVSPTI=&clientId=12498.

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Books on the topic "Monstrous reproduction"

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Managing the monstrous feminine: Regulating the reproductive body. New York, NY: Routledge, 2005.

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Ussher, Jane M. Managing the monstrous feminine: Regulating the reproductive body. Hove, East Sussex: Routledge, 2006.

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Quinn, Emelia. Reading Veganism. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192843494.001.0001.

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Reading Veganism: The Monstrous Vegan, 1818 to Present focuses on the iteration of the trope of ‘the monstrous vegan’ across 200 years of Anglophone literature. Explicating, through such monsters, veganism’s relation to utopian longing and challenge to the conceptual category of the ‘human’, the book explores ways in which ethical identities can be written, represented, and transmitted. Reading Veganism proposes that we can recognize and identify the monstrous vegan in relation to four key traits. First, monstrous vegans do not eat animals, an abstinence that generates a seemingly inexplicable anxiety in those who encounter them. Second, they are hybrid assemblages of human and nonhuman animal parts, destabilizing existing taxonomical classifications. Third, monstrous vegans are sired outside of heterosexual reproduction, the product of male acts of creation. And, finally, monstrous vegans are intimately connected to acts of writing and literary creation. The principal contention of the book is that understandings of veganism, as identity and practice, are limited without a consideration of multiplicity, provisionality, failure, and insufficiency within vegan definition and lived practice. Veganism’s association with positivity, in its drive for health and purity, is countered by a necessary and productive negativity generated by a recognition of the horrors of the modern world. Vegan monsters rehearse the key paradoxes involved in the writing of vegan identity.

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Book chapters on the topic "Monstrous reproduction"

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Vanita, Ruth. "Monstrous to Miraculous—Same-Sex Reproduction and Parenting." In Love's Rite, 137–60. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781403981608_6.

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Huunan-Seppälä, Henriikka. "Hybrid Creatures and Monstrous Reproduction: The Multifunctional Grotesque in Alien: Resurrection." In Art, Excess, and Education, 147–60. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-21828-7_9.

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Spinks, Jennifer. "Monstrous Births and Diabolical Seed." In Reproduction, 672. Cambridge University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781107705647.065.

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Jaffary, Nora E. "Monstrous Births." In Reproduction and Its Discontents in Mexico. University of North Carolina Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469629391.003.0006.

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This chapter uses eighteenth- and nineteenth-century news publications, medical periodicals, and an 1895 catalogue of birth anomalies from Mexico’s National Museum of History to study evolving ideas about birth monstrosity. In the late colonial period, Mexicans understood anomalous births as evidence of New Spain’s prodigious fertility, a perspective that reflected both the particularized manner in which the Enlightenment developed in Mexico and the late colonial development of “creole patriotism”. Nineteenth-century reports of monstrous births revealed some changes. The later notices conveyed popular attitudes of revulsion and horror toward birth monsters. Second, whereas the late colonial notices restricted speculation as to the origins of unusual infants to “the rare effects of nature,” by the late nineteenth century, scientists and physicians, particularly obstetrician Juan María Rodrígez, turned their focus directly onto (and into) the bodies of the mothers who had produced such phenomena. They increasingly monitored the biological conditions of aberrant embryos’ development in the female uterus. This view allowed for the possible biological regeneration of monstrous productions but also contributed to the construction of the inherent pathology of Mexican women’s reproductive anatomy.

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Kuribayashi, Tomoko. "The Monstrous “Mother” in Moto Hagio’s Marginal: The Posthuman, the Human, and the Bioengineered Uterus." In Monstrous Women in Comics, 152–68. University Press of Mississippi, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496827623.003.0010.

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This chapter analyzes monstrous childbearing in a manga text that introduces us to a graphic world where female reproduction is a rarity. Centering on the narrative of a genetically engineered, posthuman character called Kira, Marginal examines what it means when the uterus is separated from the female body. This chapter asks whether the erasure of gender from the process of maternity can indeed shift patriarchal gender matrices in more promising directions, or, if maternity continues to be framed as problematically monstrous because of Kira’s “artificial” existence, her connection to the natural environment, and her lack of control over her body/reproductive organs.

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Quinn, Emelia. "Mary Shelley and the Conception of the Monstrous Vegan." In Reading Veganism, 31–60. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192843494.003.0002.

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Chapter 1 argues that Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818) marks the origins of the ‘monstrous vegan’ trope. The chapter establishes the vegetarian contexts influencing Shelley’s novel before outlining the principal defining traits of the monstrous vegan. First, the monster’s refusal to eat meat is evidenced and explored in relation to Romantic vegetarianism. Second, his hybrid physiognomy, composed of remnants from the slaughterhouse and charnel house, allows for close attention to acts of visual recognition throughout the novel. Third, the creature’s birth outside of the confines of heterosexual reproduction is explored in relation to his challenge to reproductive futurities, with vegetarianism seen to offer a circular return to a Golden Age of humankind. Finally, the creature’s relation to literary authorship establishes that monstrous vegans bring to the fore the difficulty of inscribing ethical identities onto bodies.

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Quinn, Emelia. "Margaret Atwood and Monstrous Vegan Words." In Reading Veganism, 89–116. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192843494.003.0004.

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Chapter 3 positions Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam trilogy (2003‒13) as the culmination of the trajectory built across the previous two chapters, drawing directly on the monstrous vegans of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and H. G. Wells’s The Island of Doctor Moreau. The chapter argues that Atwood’s vegan monsters are presented as overdetermined literary constructions and signal the impossibility of connecting to a ‘pure’ or inherent vegan identity. Unpacking allusions to a wide body of vegetarian and vegan philosophy and thought within the texts, this chapter re-thinks ideas about narrative transmission and the reproduction of literary veganisms. The chapter ultimately argues that the recognition of historic vegan words, in the service of greater visibility and recognition, risks circumventing the complications and contradictions inherent to their transmission.

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"Managing the monstrous feminine: regulating the reproductive body." In Managing the Monstrous Feminine, 13–29. Routledge, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203328422-8.

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Thomson, Michael. "Legislating for the Monstrous: the Monstrous Feminine and Access to Reproductive Services." In Reproducing Narrative, 171–96. Routledge, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429447426-7.

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