Wombs for Rent. Aporias of Self-government
by Valeria Giordano
pp. 212-225 Issue 8 (4,2) – July-December 2017 ISSN (online): 2539/2239 ISSN (print): 2389-8232 DOI: 10.17450/170213
Abstract
This essay focuses on the body, object of increasingly differentiated practices, which break it up, fragment it in a continuous process of transformation and redefinition. We have moved on to the image of the body as a problem unit to a progressive isolation of portions of the self: it is the case of surrogacy maternity that redraws the trajectories of Cross Border Reproductive Care, in a logic that follows the generative potential of women’s bodies and that marks a tension between increase, vulnerability, and exploitation.