Queering Gestell: Thinking Outside Butler’s Frames and Inside Belu’s Reproductive Enframing

This article takes Judith Butler’s epistemological problem of “framing” alongside Dana S. Belu’s notion of “reproductive enframing” to analyze whose bodies lie outside the borders of who is considered the appropriate reproductive citizen. Are all bodies subject to reproductive enframing under a tota...

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Published in:The Journal of speculative philosophy 2022-07, Vol.36 (2), p.194-205
Main Author: Drouillard, Jill
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
assisted reproductive technology
Dana S. Belu
French bioethics
History
Martin Heidegger
Philosophy
queer studies
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Summary:This article takes Judith Butler’s epistemological problem of “framing” alongside Dana S. Belu’s notion of “reproductive enframing” to analyze whose bodies lie outside the borders of who is considered the appropriate reproductive citizen. Are all bodies subject to reproductive enframing under a totalizing technological ideology that Martin Heidegger refers to as Gestell? Or, does Belu’s notion of “partial enframing” allow a space to queer, or upset, our current understanding of such ideology? By queering the way that we currently view assisted reproductive technology (ART), can we widen the frame or cross its borders? In this article, I am primarily concerned with the necessity to queer French reproductive policy, though the questions I raise can be extended to any critiques of ART.
ISSN:0891-625X
1527-9383
DOI:10.5325/jspecphil.36.2.0194