(Re)Theorising Pregnant Embodiment With/Through the Maternal Subject - Locating Alternative Feminist Approaches to Tackling Contemporary Reproductive

在罗伊诉韦德案（Roe V. Wade）发生近50年后，女性/生殖器官再次成为美国、爱尔兰和其他国家警务和政治化的主题。在这项研究中，我试图通过（重新）理论化母亲主体的怀孕体现来回应这种全球性的“生殖暴力”（Donath 2015）。当代产科实践是根据一种模式来运作的，这种模式将怀孕的身体概念化为必须“积极管理”的“机器”，很少关注一个人的生活，体现，经验（Martin 1989，助产士选择2017）。这种“男性主义”医学模式对孕妇在医疗保健系统中的体验产生了负面影响，但此外，它们预先决定了我们如何将怀孕的主体/身体作为“胎儿发育”的“环境”（Petchesky 1987， O’shaughnessy 2017）。这项研究试图将怀孕重新定位为一种“超越身体/可见”的体现状态。通过参与者摄影和定性访谈，研究参与者被要求记录他们的怀孕；具体概述她们在妊娠早期的谈判和经历、她们的心理情绪状态/分娩以及她们与产科领域的“接触”。这些怀孕的“替代”模型对重新定位孕产妇机构和劳动中心以及对孕产妇心理健康问题给予更多关注的学术和倡导特别感兴趣（Hunter等人，2017）。

Almost 50 years after Roe V. Wade, the feminine/reproductive body finds itself once again the subject of policing andpoliticisation in the U.S., Ireland and beyond. With this research, I attempt to respond to this global 'reproductive violence'by (re)theorising pregnant embodiment with/through the maternal subject (Donath 2015). Contemporary obstetricpractice operates according to a model which conceptualises the pregnant body as a 'machine' which must be 'activelymanaged', with little focus given to one's lived, embodied, experience (Martin 1989, Midwives for Choice 2017). Such'masculinist' medical models negatively impact the pregnant person's experience with the healthcare system, butmoreover, they predetermine how we collectively relate to the pregnant subject/body as an 'environment' for 'foetaldevelopment' (Petchesky 1987, O'Shaughnessy 2017). This research seeks to refocus pregnancy as a 'more-thanphysical/visible' state of embodiment. Using participant photography and qualitative interviews, research participants areasked to document their pregnancy; outlining specifically, their negotiation and experience of the first trimester, theirpsycho-emotional state(s)/labour(s) and their 'encounter' with the obstetric sphere. These 'alternative' models of pregnantembodiment are of particular interest to scholarship and advocacy in re-centering maternal agency and labour and infurnishing greater attention to issues around maternal mental health (Hunter et al 2017).