In a society where women’s voices had been silenced behind oppressive traditional norms and restrictive social orders, and even bodies have been denied in the thick veils of religious hijab, the invisible bodies find a… Read More »Bulged Bellies, Silenced Screams; (in)visible aspects of pregnancy in Iran
Samuel Beckett’s Footfalls (1976) and Marsha Norman’s ‘night Mother (1983) challenge the popular idea predominant in the socio-cultural imagination of a mother possessing the intuitive understanding about her child that helps her not only to… Read More »Psychic Severance of Maternal Cord And Devising Purposive Languages of Self-Care
Will we still need to be pregnant in the future? Depicting the development of artificial wombs alongside increased availability of surrogacy, near-future dystopian fictions provide a space to explore the outsourcing of pregnancies away from… Read More »Surrogacy & Ectogenesis: foetal commodities and mother-machines