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An Ethical Suggestion of the “Participatory Motherhood” in the era of Artificial Uterus/Plancenta

  • The Korean Journal of Chiristian Social Ethics
  • Abbr : 기사윤
  • 2021, (51), pp.167-199
  • DOI : 10.21050/CSE.2021.51.06
  • Publisher : The Society Of Korean Christian Social Ethics
  • Research Area : Humanities > Christian Theology
  • Received : October 31, 2021
  • Accepted : December 5, 2021
  • Published : December 31, 2021

Baik Soyoung 1

1강남대학교

Accredited

ABSTRACT

This study examines the social-ethical reconsideration of the concept of motherhood, facing the “postmodern predicament” as in Rosi Bridotti’s use of the term, which is shortly will enable us to produce human babies through bio-technological methods. This study pays attention to French feminists such as Luce Irigaray and Julia Kristeva, who see the revolutionary and relational power of the mother experience. Also, this article attempts to present the use of the reproduction machines, which in Donna Haraway have been treated as ‘womb’ and controlled their reproductive power and process by patriarchal males. At the same time, she disagrees with being-mother in the frame of the political power game that could be trapped in another biological essentialism, i.e., being a mother as the woman’s soul and authentic experience. This work suggests the concept of “participatory motherhood” as the meaning of social motherhood, not exclusively biological motherhood. Also, this study argues that the construction of “social uterus/placenta,” in which babies, mothers, and other social weeks are nurtured in the mutual interaction with the participatory mothers.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.