CAROLINA BERNARDINI ANTONIAZZI

Course
Master's degree
Research title
Subjectivity and alienation through the pregnant body
Research abstract

This research aims to investigate the pregnant subject’s place in the world as paradigmatic to unveil aspects of the subjective experience besides certain types of oppression. Paradigmatic as it collapses barriers and nuances and allows for diverse layers of experience when it embraces and dismantles certain categories, as it questions the political and social role of woman. Iris Young’s work, trough phenomenological approach of one’s own body, describes the lived experience of this subject, while also providing a social view of this position which not only comprises the moment of pregnancy but also the structure in which society and knowledge are structured around this phenomenon. On one hand, the phenomenological study of the pregnant subject describes bodily aspects, such as the distinctions between inner and outer, immanence and transcendence, revealing these are less precise than previously supposed. On the other hand, Young proposes an engagement on social criticism trough the study of the pregnant embodiment, as it interacts with the world around it, and trough the unveiling of structures that allow oppressions and power struggles amongst socially determined groups. It is then possible to analyze how social structure can affect the experience of the pregnant embodiment, and how the phenomenological description of this body brings forth oppressions lived in a society in which those are present and structured in a gender manner.

Key-words: Iris Young; lived body; pregnant; gender; social; oppression

Graduate Advisor
Silvana de Souza Ramos
Funding
CAPES
Date of defense
08/02/2023