At present, not every woman is young enough, fertile enough, or healthy enough to have a baby using her own eggs or her own womb.
The womb may become artificial by the end of the century but it will still be the battleground for feminist politics.
But when the womb—the most politicized body part in history—is separated from the woman, what will it mean for feminism?
And the Latin mātrīx for “womb” comes from the same Indo-European root that gives us the English “mother.”
In New York City, affluent parents sign up for pre-school while their child is still in the womb.
For a child is born into the womb of the time, which indeed enclosed and fed him before he was born.
Her the men of old called Nemesis, born to Ocean from the womb of silent Night.
Political economy was still sleeping in the womb of futurity.
The walls of the womb consist of a thick layer of unstriped muscle.
The mother's body is becoming adapted to the development of the infant in the womb.
Old English wamb, womb "belly, uterus," from Proto-Germanic *wambo (cf. Old Norse vomb, Old Frisian wambe, Middle Dutch wamme, Dutch wam, Old High German wamba, German Wamme "belly, paunch," Gothic wamba "belly, womb," Old English umbor "child"), of unknown origin.
womb (wōōm)
n.
See uterus.
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