An Artistic Autoethnography on the Public Fetus: Feminist Perspectives [Hardcover]

This is a fascinating story of how an artist's keen eye translates a deep cultural understanding of the public fetus into an image needing deconstructing, politicising and a controversial re-think. The story is heartwarming, believable and engaging. -- Elizabeth Ettorre, Emerita Professor of Sociology, University of Liverpool, UK

An Artistic Autoethnography on the Public Fetus takes the reader on a series of imaginative, surprising and thought-provoking journeys. The image of the fetus and the practices of ultrasound on non-pregnant bodies provide entry points into a diverse range of topics: creativity and how it can be blocked; debates around reproductive rights; explorations of hybridity and liminality in relation to the self and others. Ultimately, Gonzalez Suero finds both critical and creative possibilities in her autoethnography, revealing new feminist perspectives on the image of the fetus, and a deeper understanding of the artistic process. -- Catherine Grant, Reader of Modern and Contemporary Art, Courtauld Institute of Art, UK

Anna Gonzalez Suero is an artistic autoethnographer working in an interdisciplinary way to expand on feminist theories of the body.

An Artistic Autoethnography on the Public Fetus explores artistic work with the iconic image of the fetus and the personal consequences of the image by analyzing the so-called public fetus within a feminist approach.

1. Introduction  2. The shape of my nose in my first photograph  3. Background stop moving  4. A moving background  5. Go in the trap  6. Drawing fetus forms until my fingers bleed  7. Last few pages

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