Exploring the Ineffable in Women’s Experiences of Relationality with their Stored IVF Embryos

Millbank, J

Exploring the Ineffable in Women’s Experiences of Relationality with their Stored IVF Embryos

Millbank, J

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Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: Body and Society, 2017, 23 (4), pp. 95 - 120
Issue Date:: 2017-12-01

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dc.contributor.author	Millbank, J https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8934-7945	en_US
dc.date.issued	2017-12-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Body and Society, 2017, 23 (4), pp. 95 - 120	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	1357-034X	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/123300
dc.description.abstract	© 2017, © The Author(s) 2017. This article contributes to a more nuanced and contextual approach to women’s decision-making concerning their stored IVF (in vitro fertilisation) embryos through attempting to craft a space for the expression of the complex, and contradictory, emotions attached to these decisions, unhooked from any notion of abstract moral status inhering in the embryo itself. Women struggle to express the confounding nature of the relationship to the stored IVF embryo as something of-the-body but not within the body, neither self nor other, person nor thing. In order to try to address this sense of the ineffable, I draw in this article upon a series of images by German-born American artist, Kiki Smith. The article explores three major themes, each alongside one of Smith’s artworks connecting to an experience of discomfort or confounding unease.	en_US
dc.relation	http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP150101057
dc.relation.ispartof	Body and Society	en_US
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1177/1357034X17733523	en_US
dc.subject.classification	General Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences	en_US
dc.title	Exploring the Ineffable in Women’s Experiences of Relationality with their Stored IVF Embryos	en_US
dc.type	Journal Article
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utslib.for	1608 Sociology	en_US
utslib.for	2002 Cultural Studies	en_US
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pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Law
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Strength - HJ - Health Justice
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pubs.issue	4	en_US
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pubs.volume	23	en_US

Abstract:

© 2017, © The Author(s) 2017. This article contributes to a more nuanced and contextual approach to women’s decision-making concerning their stored IVF (in vitro fertilisation) embryos through attempting to craft a space for the expression of the complex, and contradictory, emotions attached to these decisions, unhooked from any notion of abstract moral status inhering in the embryo itself. Women struggle to express the confounding nature of the relationship to the stored IVF embryo as something of-the-body but not within the body, neither self nor other, person nor thing. In order to try to address this sense of the ineffable, I draw in this article upon a series of images by German-born American artist, Kiki Smith. The article explores three major themes, each alongside one of Smith’s artworks connecting to an experience of discomfort or confounding unease.

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