Abstract
Female bodies, and especially pregnant and newly maternal bodies, leak, drip, squirt, expand, contract, crave, divide, sag, dilate, and expel. It is no surprise that historically such bodies have seemed to have dubious, hard-to-fix, permeable boundaries. To the extent that we take the integrity and boundaries of the body as integrally intertwined with the integrity and the boundaries of the self—and we have done so, at least throughout the history of Western culture and probably beyond—these dubious boundaries have been a source of various species of intellectual and visceral anxiety.1 The maternal body has long been seen as posing a troubling counterpoint to the mythical well-bounded, fully unified, seamless masculine body.2
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