{"product_id":"this-watery-place-four-essays-on-gestation-9780745350141","title":"This Watery Place: Four Essays on Gestation","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"This book will be recognized as one of the major interventions of the decade\" - \u003c\/b\u003eSophie Lewis, author of \u003ci\u003eAbolish the Family\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"An astonishing achievement written with the propulsiveness of a novel and the diagnostic precision of the best historical materialist analysis\" - \u003c\/b\u003eJordy Rosenberg, author of \u003ci\u003eConfessions of the Fox\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A fierce and luminous revelation\" - \u003c\/b\u003eAnne Boyer, poet and author of \u003ci\u003eThe Undying\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e What does it feel like to experience your body cleaving into two while public discussion of reproductive healthcare centers around the viability line: the fantasized moment when a fetus could feasibly be extracted from a uterus? What happens to the psychology of parents who spend years scrolling through photographs of children crushed in war while babies sleep beside them, indistinguishable from the dead children in expression and bodily habit? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Emma Heaney addresses these questions, situated between the particular historical moments of her pregnancies and the transhistorical continuities of sensations, emotions, socialities, and conceptual provocations that have long accompanied gestation. She focuses on the embodied realities that are mystified in the sentimentalization of motherhood, a political process that enables the material abandonment of those who do the labor of gestation and care, as well as of children. As a result, gestation is revealed as a process against cisness, wage work, and the death cult of war. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEmma Heaney\u003c\/b\u003e is a teacher and writer living in Queens, New York City, with her two children. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe New Woman\u003c\/i\u003e and the editor of the collection \u003ci\u003eFeminism Against Cisness\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEmma Heaney is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe New Woman, \u003c\/i\u003e the forthcoming \u003ci\u003eThe Ghost Cousins\u003c\/i\u003e, and the editor of the collection \u003ci\u003eFeminism Against Cisness\u003c\/i\u003e. She lives in Queens, New York City.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Pluto Press (UK)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51749434818834,"sku":"9780745350141","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_e4f19f62-575d-4b69-a0f6-cb4b0b38ca99.jpg?v=1764085206","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/this-watery-place-four-essays-on-gestation-9780745350141","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}