Prenatal sonograms mediate parental attachment to a fetus as image

Evidence

One of the most moving pieces on everyday cyborg life I have ever read is Sharon Lehner’s essay “My Womb, the Mosh Pit,” which we published in Sexuality and Cyberspace. In fiercely intimate detail, Sharon described how she was introduced to, made familiar with, and ultimately separated from the fetus of her unborn child, entirely through sonogram images. Certain moments of that story—for example, the nurse’s declaration that Sharon’s fetus had a penis that was “standing like the Statue of Liberty”—still resonate with me as examples of the power of gender performativity. — Theresa M. Senft, Camgirls, 259

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The coherence of a parent’s narrative, not its content, predicts infant attachment security — , The Rod and the Child: A Global History…, 8581; Pregnancy symptoms express simultaneous desire to reject and conserve the fetus — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1455; Physician-researchers exposed their children to graphic obstetric data — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror…, 368 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Parents’ simulated theory of mind about newborns is what brings infants into human community #expands (0.74) — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 411
• Physician-researchers exposed their children to graphic obstetric data #exemplifies (0.73) — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 368
• Different kinship and authority patterns generate different structures of emotional attachment #qualifies (0.73) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1361
• The coherence of a parent’s narrative, not its content, predicts infant attachment security #complicates (0.72) — , The Rod and the Child, 8581
• Pregnancy symptoms express simultaneous desire to reject and conserve the fetus #qualifies (0.71) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1455
• Biological egg structure does not dictate the degree of female parental involvement #complicates (0.71)