... to and in varying degrees dependent on other people. This investigation of the “fetal subject” in Cartesian metaphysics reveals a relational side to the Cartesian “cogito,” a surprising revelation insofar as Descartes often takes the blame (or credit--depending on one's adherence to liberal ideals) for providing...

.... Allen Jeffner and Young Iris Marion . Bloomington : Indiana UP , 1989 . 156 - 79 . Tuana Nancy . “ The Weaker Seed: The Sexist Bias of Reproductive Theory .” Hypatia 3 . 1 ( 1988 ): 35 - 59 . Fetal Attraction: Hegel's An-aesthetics of Gender ERIC O. CLARKE Mer the meal...

... Samuel . Apartments: Their Design and Development . New York : Reinhold , 1967 . Petchesky Rosalind Pollack . “ Fetal Images: The Power of Visual Culture in the Politics of Reproduction .” Feminist Studies 13 . 2 ( 1987 ): 263 - 92 . Petersen Clarence . Rev. of Rosemary's...

..., ostensibly in order to prevent fetal harm. These interventions treat the mother as a mere maternal environment relative to a rightsbearing fetus that is analogically compared to a pediatric case. The targeting ofpoor, relatively disenfranchised pregnant women of color who are drug abusers is clearly a wedge...

... and the Maternal in Feminism and Feminist Legal Theory .” 3 . 1 : 20 - 38 . Brown Wendy . “ Feminist Hesitations, Postmodern Exposures .” 3 . 1 : 63 - 84 . Case Sue-Ellen . “ Tracking the Vampire .” 3 . 2 : 1 - 20 . Clarke Eric C. “ Fetal Attraction: Hegel's An-aesthetics...

.... At Women's Expense: State Power and the Politics of Fetal Rights . Cambridge : Harvard UP , 1993 . Eisenstein Zillah R. The Female Body and the Law . Berkeley : U of California P , 1988 . Eisenstein Zillah R. , ed. Capitalist Patriarchy and the Case for Socialist Feminism . New...

... view, distinguishes the vision of nature in this painting 13 I n Newman’s words, “the wom- from the forms of the jardin pit- an’s body is sacrificed to fetal...

... . “ The Rational Mechanics of Flexible or Elastic Bodies, 1638–1788 .” Leonhard Euleri Opera Omnia: Series Secunda . Vol. 11 . Basel : Birkhäuser , 1960 . 15 – 37 . Wever Ernest G. Theory of Hearing . New York : Wiley , 1965 . Wilkin Rebecca . “ Descartes, Individualism, and the Fetal...

... . Mile, Siân. “Femme Foetal: The Construction/Destruction of Female Subjectivity in Housekeeping, or nothing gained.” Genders 8 ( 1990 ): 129 -41. Nancy, Jean-Luc. Hegel: The Restlessness of the Negative . Trans. J. Smith and S. Miller. Minneapolis: u of Minnesota p, 2002 . ———. “Mundus est...

... in “King of New York” was tantamount to putting a target on her body. 7 Here, I am indebted to Jared Sexton’s analysis of analogies between fetal life and Black life. In an interview with Daniel Barber, Sexton explains, “[W]hat the analogy enables—in this perverse desire to be black in order...

... of Our Immune System and Other Defenses of the Human Body . New York : Delacorte P , 1987 . Nilsson Lennart . A Child Is Born . New York : Dell , 1977 . Petchesky Rosalind Pollack . “ Fetal Images: The Power of Visual Culture in the Politics of Reproduction .” Feminist Studies...

... wish on his being. On the level of his body scheme he took jouissance from the prohibition of living, from the prohibition of developing the image of his fetal body in the outside world after his birth” (196). The boy’s phobia, Dolto also notes, disappears soon after the session in which he...

... that Belacqua’s “foetal posture” (a term appearing in the stage directions describing Estragon’s demeanor in Waiting for Godot ) would come to form the principle of the “closed space fictions” (47), texts starting in the mid-1960s featuring “barely perceptible movement” (99). Hélène Cixous, too, would single out...

..., to the triumph of the image, to visual representation. Visualization is a way of fixing (in) time - take, as an example, the technique of echography, which allows you to externalize and see on a screen the inside of the womb and its foetal content. Offering "everything" for show, representing even...

... will invite Farrakhan to meeting .” New York Times 12 Jan . 1994 . Rpt. in Gainesville Sun 15 Jan . 1994 : 3 . Newman Karen . Fetal Positions: Individualism, Science, Visuality . Stanford : Stanford UP , 1996 . “ Obituary .” Boston Globe . 14 Aug . 1995 : 2 . Patton...

... here, Johnson tracks the political consequences of apostrophic address for what has become fetal personhood. In this scene, a silent, affectively present but physically displaced interlocutor (a lover, a fetus) is animated...

.... Developments in fetal medicine and eugenics offer the prospects of regulating the product as well as the process of reproduction and normalizing intervention into the lives of persons by beginning even before they have that status. Each of these techniques touches the core of the bio-power system, the control...

... is the “there” of fetal “being-there,” the da of its Da-sein . Irigaray’s elaboration of this scene challenges our usual conception of entities, identities, and existences, as well as our tendency to ground these in bounded, determinate loci. In this placental life, as Irigaray describes it, there prevails a mode...

... state.14 That is, hysteria materializes the protopsychic (ontogenetic and phylogenetic) inclinations native to the body’s substrata. By ontogenetic tendencies he means the desire to return to the womb (to fetal or embry- onic...

... James Cameron sequel, Aliens (1986); a good selection of these essays is offered in Kuhn. 12 "It seemed at first," Sofia concludes, "that a contradiction existed between the ruling conservatives' interest in military escalation and their espoused desire to protect fetal life, but both positions turn out...