Interview with Sinah T. Kloß and Antonia Villinger on ‘Pregnant Bodies – Embodied Pregnancy’

Tomoko Tamari conducted the interview with the editors of the Body & Society special issue ‘Pregnant Bodies, Embodied Pregnancy’ in order to explore their rationale for developing issues on pregnant bodies, and explore how their personal experience as being pregnant women during their editing process of the issue, influenced their analytical insights of pregnancy and pregnant bodies. Tomoko also raises the issues of transgender male’s pregnancy which is often stigmatized, and analyses the lived experience so as to further discuss multifactorial and complex embodied pregnancy in society. Furthermore, Tomoko introduced the Body & Society’s special section on ‘Biocircularities: Lives, Times and Technologies (Vol. 29. Issue 2, 2020) and the notion of ‘recursion’ to raise the question of how the development of reproductive science and technology has transformed ‘the temporality’ of pregnant bodies to make possible ‘multiple temporalities’. Finally Kloß and Villinger discuss their thoughts about experiences of ‘after pregnancy’ and ‘becoming a mother’ in order to open up potential future research topics.