in:
Trauma and motherhood in contemporary literature and culture / Laura Lazzari, Nathalie Ségeral, editors
2021
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59-83 S.
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| Einrichtung: | Ariadne | Wien |
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| Verfasst von: | Runde, Holly |
| In: | Trauma and motherhood in contemporary literature and culture / Laura Lazzari, Nathalie Ségeral, editors |
| Jahr: | 2021 |
| ISBN: | 3030774090 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| As surrogacy becomes increasingly mainstream and commercialized in some countries, legal discourse and public opinion remain firmly opposed to its practice in France. This chapter explores the cultural mechanisms that have governed surrogacy’s controversial status as a traumatic breach of the traditional family in contemporary France. This is done through an investigation of how a recent feature film, Diane a les épaules (Fabien Gorgeart, Diane a les épaules [Diane has the Right Shape]. Petit Film, 2017), utilizes the surrogacy motif to reimagine the relationship between a pregnant woman and the fetus she carries, refusing the socially traumatic designation often assigned to this role. Feminist theories of the body and French definitions of bodily integrity ground this examination of how the film uses the protagonist’s disinterest in forging an emotional relationship to her fetus as a way of challenging the supposedly inherent connection between carrying a child to term and becoming a “mother.” Though French arguments against surrogacy have painted its practice as unnecessarily harmful toward women, Gorgeart’s film presents a feminist case for the recognition of women who choose this path. | |
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