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The Microbial Mother Meets the Independent Organ: Cultural Discourses of Reproductive Microbiomes.

Jessica R Houf1.   

Abstract

The human microbiome is changing the way experts and non-experts think about germs and microorganisms. This essay is a gender analysis of contemporary discourses surrounding the human reproductive microbiome, specifically the vaginal microbiota and the penile microbiota. I first historically situate the human reproductive microbiome within the germ theory of disease. Then, I draw on Heather Paxson's Foucauldian and Latourian concept of microbiopolitics to argue that microbiopolitics is not only about how humans should live with microorganisms; but it also impacts how humans and microbes live together as gendered beings. I illustrate this gendering through two figures: the microbial mother and the independent organ.

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Keywords:  Gender; Germ; Independent organ; Microbial mother; Microbiome; Reproduction

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Year:  2019        PMID： 28819919     DOI： 10.1007/s10912-017-9468-y

Source DB:  PubMed          Journal:  J Med Humanit        ISSN： 1041-3545


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