the Case of Adriana Iliescu and the Older Maternal Body
- Categories
- Article/Artikel
- Magazine Title
- Outskirts: feminisms along the edge
- Magazine Year
- 2006
- Magazine Number
- 14
- Creator
- Muller, Vivienne
- Thesaurus
- ouderen, zwangerschappen, moederschap, reageerbuisbevruchting, menopauze, Roemenië
- Description
- The focus in this piece is on a specific female body, an aged maternal body, that of Adriana Iliescu, a 66-year-old postmenopausal Romanian woman and retired academic who gave birth to daughter Eliza Maria in January, 2005, after nine years of IVF treatment, donor eggs and sperm and the death of two of the implanted triplets: an event which generated a range of media responses from various interpretive stakeholders (doctors, journalists, religious groups, private citizens, older mothers). Author's interest for the purposes of this paper is on a number of responses in newspapers and on blog sites which focused on Iliescu’s child-bearing body, and the anxiety, alarm and outrage it spawned as a maternal body well past its use-by date.
