Jaya Keaney (Author)
Science, Technology, and Human Values
Volume: 47
Issue: 6
Pages: 1157-1179
Edition Details: Special Issue: Reproduction in the Postgenomic Age
Language: English
In gestational surrogacy arrangements, the womb is often figured as a holding environment that brings the child of commissioning parents to fruition but does not shape fetal identity. This article probes the racial imaginary of such a figuration—what I term the “nonracializing womb”—where gestation is seen as peripheral to racial transmission. Drawing on feminist science studies frameworks and data from interviews with parents who commissioned surrogates, this article traces the cultural politics of the nonracializing womb, positioning it as an index for broader understandings of race, reproductive labor, and kinship that hinge on nuclear and biogenetic forms. It then problematizes this figure of gestation by engaging emerging research on environmental epigenetics, which offers a lively model of pregnancy as shaping fetal biology, blurring the lines between surrogate and fetus. I argue that epigenetics offers a resource to reimagine gestation as a racializing process, by theorizing race not as solely genetic, but as relational, socio-environmental, and forged through distributed kinship lineages.
...MoreArticle Sonja van Wichelen; Jaya Keaney (2022) The Reproductive Bodies of Postgenomics. Science, Technology, and Human Values (pp. 1111-1130).
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