Zonas de clandestinidad y “nuda vida:” Mujeres, cuerpo y aborto

Abstract In this essay, I examine how different zones of clandestinity constitute women’s bodies in ways that are vital to the sovereign and gendered power of the State, in moments of dictatorship as well as democracy. Drawing on three different research projects, I aim to juxtapose seemingly unconnected situations: detention and disappearance, forced abortions, and criminalized voluntary abortions. I use the work of Giorgio Agamben and Penelope Deutscher to explore ways in which women are constructed as “bare life” through the institutionalization of clandestine abortions. The zone of c...