Representing Abortion

1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-0-367-54002-9
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 270 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 418 g

Reihe: Interdisciplinary Research in Gender

Representing Abortion analyses how artists, writers, performers, and activists make abortion visible, audible, and palpable within contexts dominated by anti-abortion imagery centred on the fetus and the erasure of the pregnant person, challenging the polarisation of conversations about abortion.

This book illuminates the manifold ways that abortion is depicted and narrated by artists, performers, clinicians, writers, and activists. This representational work offers nuanced and complex understandings of abortion, personally and politically. Analyses of such representations are urgently needed as access to abortion is diminished and anti-abortion representations of the fetus continue to dominate the cultural horizon for thinking about abortion. Expanding the frame of reference for understanding abortion beyond the anti-abortion use of the fetal image, contributors to this collection push beyond narrow abstractions to examine representations of the experience and procedure of abortion within grounded histories, politics, and social contexts.

The collection is organized into sections around seeing (and not seeing) abortion; fetal materiality; abortion storytelling and memoir; and representations for new arguments. These themes cover a range of topics including abortion visibility, anti-abortion discourse, pro-choice engagements with the fetus, personal experience and media representations. The analyses of such representations counteract anti-abortion rhetoric, carving out space for new arguments for abortion that are more representative and inclusive and asking audiences to envision new ways to advocate for safe abortion access through reproductive justice frameworks.

This is an innovative and challenging collection that will be of key interest for scholars studying reproductive rights and reproductive justice, as well as women and gender studies. Representing Abortion is organized to structure upper year undergraduate and graduate courses on reproductive rights and reproductive justice in a new and engaging way.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Johnston Hurst, Rachel Alpha

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Abtreibung, Geburtenkontrolle: Soziale & Ethische Themen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Feminismus, Feministische Theorie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter One: Representing Abortion; Part One: Seeing (And Not Seeing) Abortion; Chapter Two: Secrets; Chapter Three: It’s A Boy! Borted: Fetal Bodies, Graphic Abortion, and the Option to Look; Chapter Four: Museums and the Material Culture of Abortion; Chapter Five: Who’s Late?: Degrassi, Abortion, History; Part Two: Fetal Materiality; Chapter Six: Representing the Cause: The Strategic Rebranding of the Anti-Abortion Movement in Canada; Chapter Seven: Visual Realignment? The Shifting Visual Terrains of Anti-Abortion Strategies in the Republic of Ireland; Chapter Eight: Look Like A Provider: Representing the Materiality of the Fetus in Abortion Care Work; Chapter Nine: Dressing Up the Mizuko Jizo: Materializing the Aborted Fetus in Japan; Chapter Ten: Rattling Your Rage: Humour, Provocation, and the SisterSerpents; Part Three: Abortion Storytelling and Memoir; Chapter Eleven: Abortion for Beginners; Chapter Twelve: All Politics are Reproductive: Abortion and Environment in Marianne Apostolides’ Deep Salt Water; Chapter Thirteen: From Compulsion to Choice? The Changing Representations of Abortion in India; Chapter Fourteen: Underground Women’s State: Polish Struggles for Abortion Rights; Part Four: Representations for New Arguments; Chapter Fifteen: "What You Do Hurts All of Us!" When Women Confront Women Through Pro-Life Rhetoric; Chapter Sixteen: "This is How I was Born on the Operating Table of an Abortion Clinic": Reproductive Decision-Making and Coatlicue State in Teatro Luna; Chapter Seventeen: Abortion and the Ideology of Love in Kathy Acker’s Blood and Guts in High School and Don Quixote, Which Was a Dream