https://doi.org/10.4081/mem.2025.1650
The artificial uterus and the feminist debate on motherhood
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This contribution aims to explore the project of ectogenesis, the subject of countless efforts in scientific research and a source of fascination within contemporary feminist discourse. Drawing on Simone de Beauvoir’s reading of motherhood and female biology, several authors have identified in the construction of an artificial womb a radical tool of emancipation, capable of liberating women from their reproductive functions. This contribution first seeks to examine the pathologizing view of pregnancy and childbirth implicit in this representation, and then to highlight how the technical reconfiguration of the human condition—an endeavor to which our era has now become fully devoted— finds one of its most radical and unsettling expressions precisely in the artificial womb.
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