Conceiving Histories: Trying for Pregnancy, Past and Present
暫譯: 構思歷史：懷孕的嘗試，過去與現在

Davis, Isabel, Burel, Anna

Conceiving Histories: Trying for Pregnancy, Past and Present
  • 出版商: MIT
  • 出版日期: 2025-03-04
  • 售價: $1,810
  • 貴賓價: 9.5 折 $1,720
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 304
  • 裝訂: Hardcover - also called cloth, retail trade, or trade
  • ISBN: 0262049481
  • ISBN-13: 9780262049481

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商品描述

A fascinating and beautifully illustrated account of trying to conceive in both the past and the present.

Inspired by the author's own experiences, Conceiving Histories brings together history, personal memoir, and illustration to investigate the culturally hidden experience of trying to conceive. In elegant, engaging prose, Isabel Davis explores the combination of myth, fantasy, science, and pseudo-science that the (un)reproductive body encounters in pursuit of a viable pregnancy. The book chronicles the trying-to-conceive lifecycle arc from sex education at school, through the desire to be a parent, into the specifics of trying and struggling to conceive. It also looks back at conception throughout history to open a new vista on what we live with today.

A central argument of Davis's is that historical people lived with the unknown just like we do but were more explicitly able to acknowledge it. In an age of assistive reproductive technologies, the act of embracing uncertainty seems difficult. Although the topic of not conceiving is potentially painful, this is not a grim book; more than grief, it is motivated by curiosity, wonder, compassion, and even humor. With 108 full-color illustrations, Conceiving Histories is also a beautiful material object, an intentionally playful antidote and supplement to online search engines--the resort of so many embroiled in fertility challenges.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

一本引人入勝且插圖精美的書籍，探討過去與現在的懷孕嘗試。

受作者自身經歷的啟發，懷孕歷史結合了歷史、個人回憶和插圖，調查了懷孕嘗試中文化上隱藏的經歷。伊莎貝爾·戴維斯（Isabel Davis）以優雅且引人入勝的文筆，探討了在追求可行懷孕過程中，(不)生育身體所面臨的神話、幻想、科學和偽科學的結合。這本書記錄了從學校的性教育、成為父母的渴望，到具體的懷孕嘗試與掙扎的整個過程。它還回顧了歷史上的懷孕情況，為我們今天的生活開啟了一個新的視野。

戴維斯的核心論點是，歷史上的人們與我們一樣生活在未知之中，但他們能更明確地承認這一點。在輔助生殖技術的時代，擁抱不確定性的行為似乎變得困難。儘管不懷孕的話題可能令人痛苦，但這本書並不沉重；它不僅僅是悲傷，而是受到好奇心、驚奇、同情甚至幽默的驅動。懷孕歷史擁有108幅全彩插圖，也是一本美麗的實體書籍，故意成為一種有趣的解藥和補充，對抗在線搜索引擎——這是許多面臨生育挑戰的人所依賴的資源。

作者簡介

Isabel Davis leads a research theme on Collections and Culture at the Natural History Museum in London, and she is Honorary Research Fellow at Birkbeck, University of London, and Senior Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Reading.

Anna Burel is a London-based artist and illustrator whose artwork encompasses textiles, sculpture, drawing, photography, and collage. Her work investigates the female bodily experience through an exploration of history and traditional storytelling like myth and fairytale.

Isabel and Anna have worked together since 2015, holding an exhibition of their work in London in 2017.

作者簡介(中文翻譯)

伊莎貝爾·戴維斯（Isabel Davis）在倫敦自然歷史博物館領導一個有關收藏與文化的研究主題，她同時也是倫敦大學伯克貝克學院的榮譽研究員，以及雷丁大學的高級訪問研究員。

安娜·布雷爾（Anna Burel）是一位位於倫敦的藝術家和插畫家，她的藝術作品涵蓋了紡織品、雕塑、繪畫、攝影和拼貼。她的作品通過探索歷史和傳統故事講述（如神話和童話），調查女性的身體經驗。

伊莎貝爾和安娜自2015年以來一直合作，並於2017年在倫敦舉辦了她們的作品展覽。

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