ABSTRACT
In this chapter author aims to attempt at understanding better what and why the child is seen to be such that it generates almost unquestioned and unquestioningly the highly complex range of efforts of financial, organizational, medical, legal, psychological, and personal kinds, together called reproductive technologies. As Margarete Sandelowski writes of a shift in the late 1980s and early 1990s in studying infertility and reproductive technologies to Rediscovering the individual and the “universal singular”. The author argues extensively in disciplinary terms, perhaps particularly implicated and invested in the child as unquestionable, by virtue of a history, however contested in other ways, of constituting as and in themselves narratives of the human and its (in)humanity. Just as Rose does not see her diagnosis of children’s literature as a production of adulthood producing both itself and its childhood as resolvable by either “some ideal form of writing” which would truly be able to be for a real or actual child.
