Description
Book SynopsisRepresenting 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
Table of Contents
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 Jizō: 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
