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Article: Monstrous mothers: media representations of post-menopausal pregnancy.
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- Afterimage
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- September 1, 1997
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In recent coverage of post-menopausal women whose bodies have gestated a fetus to term, the media has played an important role in determining how we come to understand something as seemingly "natural" for women as pregnancy when it occurs in the "unnatural" bodies of post-menopausal women. Given that scientific discourse relies heavily on universal terms like "nature," these news stories query the meaning of scientifically defined concepts. In turn, the premises upon which these scientific concepts are based themselves challenge static terms like "nature" and the "natural," revealing them as cultural constructs that serve a particular purpose in establishing and ...