About Being in Time: Response to Commentaries by Dinshaw, Auerbach, and Pellegrini

Abstract

This article is a response to commentaries by Dinshaw, Auerbach, and Pellegrini on “Using Queer and Psychoanalytic Times to Explore the Troubling Temporalities of Fetal Personhood” (this issue). This response describes in more detail the ways the author integrates psychoanalytic and queer theories of temporality by outlining a way of bringing the 2 forms of analysis together in the reading of fetal personhood cases. This response also explores further the profound racism and classism in the administration of these personhood laws and the ways they enact Alexander’s (2010) description of the new caste system.

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¹ I thank Steve Botticelli’s question during the original panel event for highlighting the complicated role global climate change and environmental destruction could play here.

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Katie Gentile

Katie Gentile, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Counseling and Director of the Gender Studies Program at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. She is the author of the books Creating Bodies: Eating Disorders as Self-Destructive Survival (2007) and the forthcoming The Business of Being Made: Assisted Reproductive Technologies, Bodies, Time, both from Routledge. She is a Co-Editor of Studies in Gender and Sexuality and on the editorial board of Women’s Studies Quarterly. She is on the faculty of New York University’s Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis.