La fabbricazione del figlio tra genetica e diritto: il corpo femminile quale laboratorio biopolitico

Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ART/ PMA) are changing the very concept of filiation and kinship, including the role of mother. If contraception has freed women from unwanted pregnancies, separating sexuality from procreation, ART separate reproduction from sexuality, creating more roles related to motherhood and paternity. A technocratic model of birth comes along, starting from a mechanistic view of the body, in which places, times and procedures are standardized and the woman is seen more as a patient. Even "surrogacy" raises important ethical, legal and cultural issues, which also involves the LGTB movement. The essay investigates these problems starting from the critical observations of anthropologists, jurists and gender theorists. The contrast to medicalization does not arise as an opposition to scientific development, but from the experience of working and reading scientific data of many operators in the maternal and child area. Women can passively live the socially constructed conception of the body, or question it, and elaborate forms of critical subjectivity with respect to the medical approach