Open AccessAligning the Affective Body
Author(s) -
Veronika Siegl
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
tsantsa
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2673-5377
pISSN - 1420-7834
DOI - 10.36950/tsantsa.2018.18.7295
Subject(s) - power (physics) , order (exchange) , psychology , control (management) , sociology , social psychology , computer science , business , artificial intelligence , physics , finance , quantum mechanics
Drawing on the concepts of «emotional labour» (Hochschild) and «technologies of the self» (Foucault), this article explores how women align their affective and thus risky bodies in order to become effective surrogate workers in Moscow. I argue that this alignment entails «dis-emotionalising» the pregnancy by strategically essentialising the female body. This essentialisation also serves as an authoritative tool of control and conceals the power disparities at hand.