Abstract: “Reproduction Without Bodies, Bodies Without Reproduction” is a transhistorical issue that moves chronologically from 1500 to 1900 but resists the impulse to suggest any single story about reproduction and bodies from early modernity to the end of the nineteenth century. Rather, we argue that nonreproductive bodies and nonbodily reproduction are always importantly interrelated in ways that can shift in time, place, and context. In recognizing the limits and violent legacies of reproductive futurity, this themed issue features ongoing analyses of reproductive refusal as well as of organizing attunements to patriarchal reproductive powers, race and racialization, medicalization and embodiment, and anti-feminism. Bodily, reproductive, political, and disciplinary precarities frame our interest in both “reproduction” and “body” as pressing and mutable categories.
Miller et al. (Thu,) studied this question.