This paper demonstrates the experiences of dealing with unhappiness when doing prenatal medical check ups and of seeking pleasure through prenatal shopping among two generation mothers, the younger expectant mother an...This paper demonstrates the experiences of dealing with unhappiness when doing prenatal medical check ups and of seeking pleasure through prenatal shopping among two generation mothers, the younger expectant mother and their older mothers. It argues that the conflicts between them arise from the state intentions of marginalizing and eliminating the socialist past embedded in the older generation mothers. Locating these contrasts into historical specificies, it illustrates that the distinctions imposed by the state to grouping and categorizing its national subjects are in fact discursively produced through people＇s everyday life by evoking both their desires and fears. It further suggests that as subjected bodies, no matter how unevenly they were, they all subvert the authorities in one way or another.展开更多
文摘This paper demonstrates the experiences of dealing with unhappiness when doing prenatal medical check ups and of seeking pleasure through prenatal shopping among two generation mothers, the younger expectant mother and their older mothers. It argues that the conflicts between them arise from the state intentions of marginalizing and eliminating the socialist past embedded in the older generation mothers. Locating these contrasts into historical specificies, it illustrates that the distinctions imposed by the state to grouping and categorizing its national subjects are in fact discursively produced through people＇s everyday life by evoking both their desires and fears. It further suggests that as subjected bodies, no matter how unevenly they were, they all subvert the authorities in one way or another.
