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Promising monsters : pregnant bodies, artistic subjectivity, and maternal imagination.

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Published
<mark>Journal publication date</mark>2006
<mark>Journal</mark>Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy
Issue number1
Volume21
Number of pages21
Pages (from-to)80-100
Publication StatusPublished
<mark>Original language</mark>English

Abstract

This paper engages with theories of the monstrous maternal in feminist philosophy to explore how examples of visual art practice by Susan Hiller, Marc Quinn, Alison Lapper, Tracey Emin, and Cindy Sherman disrupt maternal ideals in visual culture through differently imagined body schema. By examining instances of the pregnant body represented in relation to maternal subjectivity, disability, abortion, and "prosthetic" pregnancy, it asks whether the "monstrous" can offer different kinds of figurations of the maternal that acknowledge the agency and potential power of the pregnant subject.