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Dass auch Männer Kinder gebären können, ist ein uralter Traum. Zwischen 1890 und 1933 wurden männliche Gebärphantasien zu einem in Literatur, Kunst und Film geradezu obsessiv präsentierten Phänomen. Heute ist aus der Phantasie Realität geworden. Dieser Aufstieg vom Imaginären der 'Kunstgeburten' zum 'Realen' einer neuen Materialität öffnet einen ganz neuen, vollständig unbekannten Horizont, von dem Filme wie 'Blade Runner' oder 'Matrix' nur einen Vorschein geben. Zu Recht steht Filippo Tommaso Marinettis 'afrikanischer' Roman 'Mafarka der Futurist' im Dreh- und Angelpunkt der Argumentation.

Male pregnancy. --- Childbirth in literature. --- Human reproduction in literature.

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Natalität ist, nach Hannah Arendt, der »Neubeginn, der mit jeder Geburt in die Welt kommt«. Während Natalität im philosophischen Diskurs oft im Schatten der Fragen nach Sterblichkeit, Tod und Ende stand, beanspruchten die Künste sie seit Langem metaphorisch für Figuren des Anfangs. Neben Zeugung und Empfängnis markieren Mutter-, Vater- und vor allem Schwangerschaft sowie Geburt ein diskursives Feld ästhetischer Hervorbringungen und Neuanfänge. Der vorliegende Band untersucht Entwicklungen und Brüche in der künstlerischen Natalitätsmetaphorik der Moderne. Er fragt nach den Einsätzen der Geburtsmetapher ebenso wie nach der Reprojektion des maskulin usurpierten Geburtskonzepts auf die Position der künstlerisch kreativen Frau. Schließlich untersucht er Vorstellungen nicht-geschlechtlicher Kreation, welche die Natalität aus der Biosphäre und Dominanz der Familienordnung herauslösen.

Birth (Philosophy) in literature --- Childbirth in literature --- Fertility, Human, in art --- Literature --- History and criticism

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Japanese literature --- Pregnancy in literature --- Childbirth in literature --- Women authors --- History and criticism

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Here, five authors use multidisciplinary approaches to examine verbal birthing narratives. The work argues that women should become active participants in their own birthing experiences, and that caregiving systems should change to accomodate women during birth.Drawing on a richly diverse collection of more than 130 interviews, this book brings to life the nagging question of just who is having this baby, anyway? Though the birthing process is framed and handled differently from country to country, even from region to region, the prevailing norm situates birth in hospitals, managed by doctors and nurses who rely on a variety of technologies to assist them. Medical institutions, rather than women, control the birth experience. In this book five authors use multidisciplinary approaches to examine verbal birthing narratives. A rhetorician investigates power relations among all people involved in the birthing process. A historian exposes the history of how women's bodies have been viewed and scripted according to the logic of an assembly line. In its conclusion, this work argues that women should become active participants in their own birthing experiences, and that care-giving systems should change to accommodate women during birth.

Childbirth in literature --- Childbirth --- Midwifery --- Women patients --- Women's rights --- Labor, Obstetric --- Cross-cultural studies --- History --- Civil rights --- psychology

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In Romanticism, Maternity, and the Body Politic, Julie Kipp examines Romantic writers' treatments of motherhood and maternal bodies in the context of the legal, medical, educational and socioeconomic debates about motherhood so popular during the period. She argues that these discussions turned the physical processes associated with mothering into matters of national importance. The privately shared space signified by the womb or the maternal breast were made public by the widespread interest in the workings of the maternal body. These private spaces evidenced for writers of the period the radical exposure of mother and child to one another - for good or ill. Kipp's primary concern is to underline the ways that writers used representations of mother-child bonds as ways of naturalizing, endorsing and critiquing Enlightenment constructions of interpersonal and intercultural relations. This fascinating literary and cultural study will appeal to all scholars of Romanticism.

English literature --- Mother and child in literature. --- Romanticism --- Human body in literature. --- Motherhood in literature. --- Childbirth in literature. --- Mothers in literature. --- Body, Human, in literature --- Human figure in literature --- History and criticism. --- Arts and Humanities --- Literature