I don't know what I think about this...
But what do you think about it? Apparently a senior at Yale has done an art project by getting artificially inseminated and taking drugs to induce a miscarriage.
Here's the link...
and another one
Seriously, what do you think?
UPDATE: Bitch Ph.D. has also weighed in
UPDATE #2: Feministing has some more information, including that her project was just a "creative fiction" and another clarification that she went through the process without knowing whether she was actually pregnant.
FINAL UPDATE: The artist, Aliza Shvarts, has written a column in Yale's newspaper explaining the project, what it entails, and how she thinks it functions. I find her explanation fascinating in light of some issues we've discussed this semester, particularly Butler's arguments about the performative and semiotic capacity of the body.
Here's the link...
and another one
Seriously, what do you think?
UPDATE: Bitch Ph.D. has also weighed in
UPDATE #2: Feministing has some more information, including that her project was just a "creative fiction" and another clarification that she went through the process without knowing whether she was actually pregnant.
FINAL UPDATE: The artist, Aliza Shvarts, has written a column in Yale's newspaper explaining the project, what it entails, and how she thinks it functions. I find her explanation fascinating in light of some issues we've discussed this semester, particularly Butler's arguments about the performative and semiotic capacity of the body.
posted by Blake at
2:58 PM
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I'm disturbed. While I am pro-choice, I am not ethically comfortable with someone conceiving specifically with the intention of miscarrying. I'm also not ok with other conceptual art that involves killing animals or mutilating a person's body - I don't think the symbolic act is worth the cost. Thanks for raising such an interesting question!
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bethany, at 4:12 PM
feminist blogosphere is mostly suspicious of this story. See here and
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bethany, at 8:24 PM
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