ABSTRACT

Women using reproductive technologies to extend the period they can procreate challenge nature and culture, and traverse the boundary between what is considered normal and abnormal. In other words, women inhabit the potentialities of reproductive change found in Margrit Schildrich's figure of the monstrous. Haraway and Dumit's implosion method is a useful vehicle for following women who are on the edge of reproductive age through legislation, the media, and the fertility clinic, revealing how maternal age is disciplined and (re)configured. While older women who conceived naturally are viewed as acceptable mothers, those who used technological assistance are perceived with uneasiness. The dichotomy of the natural and the unnatural is especially prevalent as an ordering principle in legislation, but it is (re)configured in media reports and clinical settings where a youthful appearance mental attitude and behaviour, can mitigate age. While the discussion about an age limit for parenthood is important, the nature-based ideas that are central to regulating women's bodies but not men's should be challenged. The way that moral boundaries emerge calls for legislation, media perceptions, and clinical practices to be adjusted to include new modes of ordering that are less repressive of women, their bodies, and their reproductive lives.

摘要

使用生殖技术来延长生育期的女性挑战自然和文化，并跨越被认为是正常和异常的界限。换句话说，女性拥有在玛格丽特·希尔德里希 (Margrit Schildrich) 的怪物形象中发现的生殖变化的潜力。Haraway 和 Dumit 的内爆方法是通过立法、媒体和生育诊所跟踪处于生育年龄边缘的女性的有用工具，揭示了如何规范和（重新）配置产妇年龄。虽然自然受孕的老年妇女被视为可以接受的母亲，但那些使用技术援助的妇女却感到不安。自然与非自然的二分法作为立法中的排序原则尤为普遍，但它被（重新）配置在媒体报道和临床环境中，在这些环境中，年轻的外表精神态度和行为可以减少年龄。虽然关于生育年龄限制的讨论很重要，但基于自然的观念对于调节女性身体而非男性身体至关重要。道德界限出现的方式要求立法、媒体认知和临床实践进行调整，以包括对女性、她们的身体和生育生活的压抑程度较低的新秩序模式。