I’ve always privately felt that pregnancy is a socially accepted form of body horror, and the institution of the family accepted cultural horror.
I’m curious about the resonances/divergences between eg. Victorian anxieties about sexuality, social contamination, and “the marriage plot” + colonial entanglements with raising children well as… you know, part of the whole manifest destiny “we must groom our future colonial administrators” plan, and the very different set of cultural discourses in Asian literature on this. There doesn’t seem to be the same preoccupation with heterofuturity, although there is misogyny, see Raise The Red Lantern/大红灯笼高高挂.
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I’ve always privately felt that pregnancy is a socially accepted form of body horror, and the institution of the family accepted cultural horror.
I’m curious about the resonances/divergences between eg. Victorian anxieties about sexuality, social contamination, and “the marriage plot” + colonial entanglements with raising children well as… you know, part of the whole manifest destiny “we must groom our future colonial administrators” plan, and the very different set of cultural discourses in Asian literature on this. There doesn’t seem to be the same preoccupation with heterofuturity, although there is misogyny, see Raise The Red Lantern/大红灯笼高高挂.