{"product_id":"this-watery-place","title":"This Watery Place: Four Essays on Gestation","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA striking political and literary meditation on the sensory experience and politics of conception, pregnancy and neonatal care \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e‘One of the major interventions of the decade’ – Sophie Lewis, author of \u003cem\u003eAbolish the Family\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e‘An astonishing achievement written with the propulsiveness of a novel’ – Jordy Rosenberg, author of \u003cem\u003eConfessions of the Fox\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e‘A fierce and luminous revelation’ – Anne Boyer, poet and author of \u003cem\u003eThe Undying\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eWhat does it feel like to experience your body cleaving into two while public discussion of reproductive healthcare centers around the viability line: the fantasized moment when a fetus could feasibly be extracted from a uterus? What happens to the psychology of parents who spend years scrolling through photographs of children crushed in war while babies sleep beside them, indistinguishable from the dead children in expression and bodily habit?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eEmma Heaney addresses these questions, situated between the particular historical moments of her pregnancies and the transhistorical continuities of sensations, emotions, socialities, and conceptual provocations that have long accompanied gestation. She focuses on the embodied realities that are mystified in the sentimentalization of motherhood, a political process that enables the material abandonment of those who do the labor of gestation and care, as well as of children. As a result, gestation is revealed as a process against cisness, wage work, and the death cult of war.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003ePreface: Us\u003cbr\u003e1. On Fetal Separateness\u003cbr\u003e2. Is a Cervix Cis?\u003cbr\u003e3. The Hydraulics of Provision\u003cbr\u003e4. Wars, Wars, Wars; or Swimming in the Waters of the World\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNotes\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEmma Heaney is the author of \u003cem\u003eThe New Woman,\u003c\/em\u003e the forthcoming \u003cem\u003eThe Ghost Cousins\u003c\/em\u003e, and the editor of the collection \u003cem\u003eFeminism Against Cisness\u003c\/em\u003e. She lives in Queens, New York City.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\"Quite simply the articulation of communism I have been waiting for. In theorizing the profound and universal freedom immanent to the hydraulics of provision, Heaney rescues gestation from pregnancy, and sets not only feminism but also Marxism on its feet. This book will be recognized as one of the major and most vital interventions of the decade.\"\u003c\/span\u003e Sophie Lewis, author of \u003ci\u003eAbolish the Family\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\"A fierce and luminous revelation, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThis Watery Place\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e proposes gestation as a common and necessary infrastructure of militancy. Written from the postpartum season’s immense derangement of the senses, Heaney’s thought carries across the rubble of the pandemic era, moving from gestation to the miracle of the newborn stranger, who, appearing everywhere, calls us to unmake and remake collective life. This is a work of total antagonism against the grim proposition that the cruelty of the present is the only possible world.\"\u003c\/span\u003e Anne Boyer, poet and author of \u003ci\u003eThe Undying\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\"An astonishing achievement. This ‘worker’s inquiry’ into the labor of gestation is written with the propulsiveness of a novel, the vulnerability of memoir, and the diagnostic precision of the best historical materialist analysis. I gasped at the brilliance of Heaney’s argumentation more than once; and I often found myself wanting to stop and cry at the beauty of a particular sentence or paragraph. But I didn’t stop, because the desire to know what new prismatic formulation would kaleidoscope into shape, pushed me on. If you have wondered whether a genuinely dialectical auto-theoretical project is possible, it is. Although maybe only Emma Heaney can write it.\"\u003c\/span\u003e Jordy Rosenberg, author of \u003ci\u003eConfessions of the Fox\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pluto Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44195764961373,"sku":"9780745350158","price":32.13,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/files\/ThisWateryPlace.jpg?v=1771795145","url":"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/products\/this-watery-place","provider":"Leftwingbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}