Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie occidentale

Journal | Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie occidentale
Monographic journal issue | 53 | Supplemento | 2019
Research Article | Maternità surrogata: la biopolitica del corpo

Maternità surrogata: la biopolitica del corpo

Una lettura della convergenza tra patriarcato e ideologia neoliberale

Abstract

This essay will focus on the question of surrogate motherhood as a problem that reveals considerable ethical dilemmas and this element seems to be linked to influences of a neoliberal economic and patriarchal ideology. The conceptual perspective is that of a discussion on modernity and the technology processes relating to the female reproductive sphere, identifiable as the new horizon of a material androcentric mechanism of the body – and in a post-colonial perspective – that sees the feminine potentiality of ‘giving life’ as a resource that can be exploited, a problem which highlights the concept of self-determination on the body.


Open access | Peer reviewed

Submitted: March 13, 2019 | Accepted: May 7, 2019 | Published Nov. 27, 2019 | Language: it

Keywords Neoliberal ideologyPatriarchyFemale reificationSurrogate motherhood


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