“Being Treated Like a Fetal Container is Enraging”: Examining Anger and Anxiety in Contemporary American Reproductive Dystopias

Q4 Social Sciences

Gender Studies Pub Date : 2023-12-01 DOI:10.2478/genst-2023-0034

Raluca Andreescu

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Abstract

Abstract The paper examines the manner in which female anger and anxiety are channelled through two recent American reproductive dystopias, Leni Zumas’s Red Clocks (2018) and Louise Erdrich’s Future Home of the Living God (2017). Starting from these two novels, I argue that anger and anxiety in feminist dystopias represent both the vehicle for political and social critique and the response to (potential) oppressive reproductive practices.

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"被当作胎儿容器对待令人愤怒"：审视当代美国生殖窘境中的愤怒与焦虑

摘要本文研究了女性的愤怒和焦虑在最近两部美国生殖类乌托邦小说--莱妮-祖玛斯的《红钟》（2018）和路易斯-埃德里奇的《活神仙的未来家园》（2017）中的传导方式。从这两部小说出发，我认为女性主义乌托邦中的愤怒和焦虑既是政治和社会批判的载体，也是对（潜在的）压迫性生育实践的回应。

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Gender Studies Social Sciences-Gender Studies

CiteScore

0.30

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0.00%

发文量

157

审稿时长

14 weeks

期刊介绍： Gender Studies is a journal addressing academics and a general readership at the same time and its main goal is to provide a gendered approach to literature, language and society and also to highlight attempts of educationalists and Gender Studies esperts in various parts of the world to institutionalize Gender Studies in the academe. The GS journal publishes high-quality peer-reviewed articles from various Humanities and Social Sciences areas. The GS journal is interdisciplinary—gender proving an excellent analytical category enabling a new perspective on literature, anthropology, social and political studies, cultural studies, linguistics and mass media studies. The GS journal provides state-of-the-art research in all such fields.