1. Haraway (1991) p.169.
2. In the following quotes from feminist literature on the nature of modern medicine the theme of transparency of bodies is linked to visualization technologies, specifically ultrasound: “Since the seventeenth century, science has ”owned“ the study of the body and its disorders. This proprietorship has required that the body’s meanings be utterly transparent and accessible to the qualified specialist (aided by the appropriate methodology and technology) and utterly opaque to the patient herself.” Bordo (1993) p. 66;
3. Among the many transformations of reproductive situations is the medical one, where women's bodies have boundaries newly permeable to both 'visualization' and 'intervention"' Haraway (1991) p.169.
4. "…take as an example the technique of echography, which allows you to externalize and see on a screen the inside of the womb and its foetal content. Offering "everything" for show, representing even the unrepresentable, i.e. the "origin", means finding images that replace and dis-place the boundaries of space (inside/outside the mother's body) and of time (before/after birth)." Braidotti (1989) p.153.
5. See, for instance, Haraway (1985) p.169: “Such images [of fetuses] blur the boundary between foetus and baby; they reinforce the idea that the foetus’ identity as separate and autonomous from the mother (the ‘living, separate child’) exists from the start. Obstetrical technologies of visualization and electronic/surgical intervention thus disrupt the very definition, as traditionally understood, of ’inside’ and outside’ a woman’s body, of pregnancy as an ’interior’ experience. Increasingly, ’who controls the interpretation of bodily boundaries in medical hermeutics [becomes] a major feminist issue”; Petchesky writes that: “Like penetrating Cuban territory with reconnaissance satellites and Radio Marti, treating a foetus as if it were outside a woman’s body, because it can be viewed, is a political act.” (1987) p.65. For similar views see Duden (1993) and Franklin (1991).