Seeing and knowing
Seeing and knowing
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看见并知道
DOI：
10.1177/1464700109104923
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发表时间：
2009
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影响因子：
2.1
通讯作者：
J. Palmer
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作者：
J. Palmer
自20世纪60年代以来，胎儿图像一直是医学堕胎辩论的核心。女权主义者对这些照片进行了广泛的分析，认为怀孕的身体与胎儿分离，并从视野中抹去，妇女和胎儿的权利处于对立状态。在这篇文章中，我介绍了这场争论中的最新图像，3D超声图，它被广泛报道为缩短妊娠时限的新证据。通过对两个例子的分析，我认为这些意象的修辞使用可以表现为知与见的结合。随着超声波图对未经训练的眼睛的新的清晰度，图像制作者通过公共信息的话语而合法化，并呼吁有关公民行使他们的权利去看/知道。对于女性主义理论来说，这意味着需要继续分析胎儿形象的认识论，并重新关注观众的主体地位。
Foetal images have been central to the medicalized abortion debate since the 1960s. Feminists have extensively analysed such pictures, arguing that the pregnant body is separated from the foetus and erased from view, and that the rights of women and foetuses are set in opposition. In this article I introduce the latest image in this debate, the 3D sonogram, which is widely reported as new evidence for a reduction in the gestational time limit. Through close analysis of two examples, I argue that the rhetorical use of these images can be characterized by a conflation of knowing with seeing. With the new clarity of sonograms to the untrained eye, image producers are legitimated by a discourse of public information and concerned citizens are called upon to exercise their rights to see/know. For feminist theory, this implies the need for continued analysis of the epistemology of foetal images and renewed focus on the subject position of the viewer.