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RETANA, Camilo. Pregnant bodies: biopolitical aspects around pregnancy in three Costa Rican films. Rev. eleuthera [online]. 2023, vol.25, n.2, pp.101-118.  Epub 14-Jun-2024. ISSN 2011-4532.  https://doi.org/10.17151/eleu.2023.25.2.6.

The objective of this article is to carry out a biopolitical reading of three Costa Rican films focused on the topic of pregnancy: Gestación by Esteban Ramírez (2009), Aurora by Paz Fábrega (2021) and Medea by Alexandra Latishey (2017). At the methodological level, the text is not limited to the relationship between biopolitical literature and language with these three audiovisual fiction works, but rather seeks to identify in them a background against which to interpret the biopolitical operations that culture enforces on pregnant bodies. As a result of this interpretative effort, the article shows the way in which pregnancy appears inscribed within biopolitical scenarios, but also the way in which the three fiction works are narratively positioned in relation to those scenarios either by communing with the norms that biopower sets in motion to regulate women’s sexuality or by disavowing those norms.

Palavras-chave : biopolitics; film; pregnancy; body; power.

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