Interview with Sinah Theres Kloß and Antonia Villinger on ‘Pregnant Bodies – Embodied Pregnancy’

Tomoko Tamari conducted this interview with the editors of the Body & Society special issue ‘Pregnant Bodies – Embodied Pregnancy’ in order to explore their rationale for focusing on pregnant bodies and exploring how their personal experience of being pregnant women during their editing process of the issue influenced their analytical insights into pregnancy and pregnant bodies. Tamari also raises the issues of transgender male’s pregnancy, which is often stigmatised, and analyses the lived experience so as to further discuss multifactorial and complex embodied pregnancy in society. In 2020 she introduced Body & Society’s special section on ‘Biocircularities: Lives, Times and Technologies’ (Vol. 29, Issue 2) 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.