The ‘Headless Goddess’ in Indian Iconography and Reproductive Health
Surjavo Sen Gupta discusses the cultural depiction of Lajjā Gaurī as a cultural antecedent to the role of male-female compatibility in Fertility Studies.
Female Sperm and the Future of Reproduction
Genevieve Smart introduces us to the bioart of Charlotte Jarvis and Susana M. Chuva de Sousa Lopes who, through creating female sperm, seek to disrupt normative ideas around sex and reproduction.
Incubator imaginaries
For Anne Whitehead, the NICU incubator raises questions of precarity and resilience, and illuminates care as a layered series of interactions involving human and non-human agency.
‘Making Bodies Kosher’: Book Review
Michal Raucher reviews Ben Kasstan’s Making Bodies Kosher: The Politics of Reproduction among Haredi Jews in England (Berghahn: 2019). In Making Bodies Kosher, Ben Kasstan explores the ways Orthodox Jews in Manchester, England respond to public