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Exploring a wide variety of visualizations of pregnancy and fetuses through 300 years of history, this timely volume offers a fresh look at the influential feminist concept of the "public fetus."
List of contents
Acknowledgments
Rethinking the Public Fetus: An Introduction
Elisabet Björklund and Solveig Jülich 1. The Monsters of Peter and Wolff: Anatomical Preparations and Embryology in Eighteenth-Century St. Petersburg -
Sara Ray2. "What Does the Eye Have to Do with Obstetrics?" The Fetus between Sight and Touch in Eighteenth-Century Italy -
Jennifer Kosmin3. Paper Pregnancies: Visualizing the Maternal Body, 1870-1900 -
Jessica M. Dandona4. Biological Bodies, Unfettered Imaginations: The 1939 Dickinson-Belskie
Birth Series Sculptures and the Unexpected Origins of Modern Antiabortion Imagery -
Rose Holz5. Creating a Public for Visualized Pregnancies: The Swedish Version of the American Sex Hygiene Film
Mom and Dad (1944) -
Elisabet Björklund6. The Drama of the Fetoplacental Unit: Reimagining the Public Fetus of Lennart Nilsson -
Solveig Jülich7. The Public Fetus in Franco's Spain: Women, Doctors, and Feminists in the Circulation of Pregnancy Images -
María Jesús Santesmases8. Visual Strategies of Antiabortion Activism and Their Feminist Critique: The Public Fetus in the United States -
Nick Hopwood9. Public Menstruation: Visualizing Periods in Art, Activism, and Advertising -
Camilla Mørk Røstvik10. From "Anatomical Specimen" to "Almost Child": Pictures of Dead Fetuses in France -
Anne-Sophie Giraud11. Reproducing Bodies in the Medical Museum: Pregnancy, Childbirth, and the Fetus on Display -
Manon S. Parry12. The Public Fetus: A Traveling Concept -
Solveig Jülich and Elisabet BjörklundList of Contributors
Selected Bibliography
Index
About the author
Edited by Elisabet Björklund and Solveig Jülich
Summary
Exploring a wide variety of visualizations of pregnancy and fetuses through 300 years of history, this timely volume offers a fresh look at the influential feminist concept of the "public fetus."
