《使女的故事》:使女、代孕与生殖政治

The Handmaid’s Tale:Handmaids,Surrogacy and the Politics of Reproduction

本文分析玛格丽特·阿特伍德《使女的故事》中使女制度和代孕现象。基列国家与使女签订契约并迫使其代孕,导致她们像商品一样在不同家庭流通、妊娠和生殖。这种“契约代孕”割裂了家庭亲权、抚养权和监护权的联系,具有一定的种族主义色彩和意识形态内涵。基列通过“契约代孕”剥夺贫困人口和有色人种的生育权和生命权,维护了白人精英的人口结构、阶级秩序和政治统治。

This paper analyzes the maid system and surrogacy in The Handmaid’s Tale. Gilead signs contracts with the maids and forces them into surrogacy, resulting in their circulation between different families as a commodity for pregnancy and reproduction. This “contract surrogacy” severs the relationship between familial parental power, custody and guardianship. It is colored by racist and ideological connotations.Through “contract surrogacy”, Gilead deprives the poor and people of color of their reproductive rights in order to maintain the population, class structure and the political rule of the white elite.