Beynon-Jones Siân M
University of York, United Kingdom.
Gend Soc. 2015 Oct;29(5):694-715. doi: 10.1177/0891243215590101.
Feminist scholarship has demonstrated the importance of sustained critical engagement with ultrasound visualizations of pregnant women's bodies. In response to portrayals of these images as "objective" forms of knowledge about the fetus, it has drawn attention to the social practices through which the meanings of ultrasound are produced. This article makes a novel contribution to this project by addressing an empirical context that has been neglected in the existing feminist literature concerning ultrasound, namely, its use during pregnancies that women decide to terminate. Drawing on semi-structured interviews with women concerning their experiences of abortion in England, I explore how the meanings of having an ultrasound prior to terminating a pregnancy are discursively constructed. I argue that women's accounts complicate dominant representations of ultrasound and that in so doing, they multiply the subject positions available to pregnant women.
女性主义学术研究已经证明了持续批判性地关注孕妇身体的超声影像的重要性。针对将这些图像描绘为关于胎儿的“客观”知识形式，该研究提请人们注意产生超声意义的社会实践。本文通过探讨一个在现有的关于超声的女性主义文献中被忽视的实证背景，即其在女性决定终止妊娠的孕期中的使用，为这一研究项目做出了新颖的贡献。通过对英国女性关于她们堕胎经历的半结构化访谈，我探究了在终止妊娠前进行超声检查的意义是如何通过话语构建的。我认为，女性的叙述使超声的主流表征变得复杂，并且这样做时，它们增加了孕妇可获得的主体位置。
