ABSTRACT
Pregnant women undergo a bodily process that transgresses the boundary between inside and outside, self and other, one and two, mother and fetus, subject and object (see Young 1990a). In this way pregnant embodiment disrupts dualistic thinking. It is this potential for disruption and disorganisation that got me thinking about pregnant women’s bodies. I’ve also been thinking, for many years, about places, and people’s relationship to places. In putting these two projects together I came to consider pregnant women’s relationship to public places, and the threat that their ‘self and other’ bodies – their corporeality that threatens to break its boundaries – might pose to a rational public order.
