Toward a Feminist Rendering of Natality

Six.

1. Introduction

In the past chapters I have posited the hyper-rationalization of the body politic as a key component in the disciplinary development of the Norplant® Condition. Rationalization has hinged, not always on the tools of oppressive coercion, but also on the subjectivist ideology of choice, responsibility, autonomy. With the modern era, autonomization doubled back upon man and the institution of the anthropomorphic automaton commenced. It is not that man has disappeared, but t...