Fertile Cosmofeminism

Abstract

In an era of globalization, are women the ideal subjects without borders? Mythologizing the role of women around the world, the poetry of the Japanese homemaker Nakagaki Sachiko suggests that women embody transcultural values from the moment they embrace particular ideologies of femininity. Eliding female desires with romantic love, maternal concern, and sentimental longing, the poem Have No Need of Borders asserts that the private world of cultural feminism offers the clearest public possibilities for an avant-garde global identity. Women stand at the forefront of transnational forms of life, and as the rhetoric of childbearing suggests, they control the reproduction of this world without borders. In this essay, I explore how cosmopolitan feminist visions of motherhood and fertility emerge in the fiction of the Japanese American writer Ruth L. Ozeki. In Ozeki's work, the world of female fertility and maternity

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