1st Edition

Representing Abortion

Edited By Rachel Alpha Johnston Hurst Copyright 2021
270 Pages 38 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

270 Pages 38 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

270 Pages 38 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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,... Read more

TABLE OF CONTENTS

List of Figures

List of Contributors

Acknowledgments

Chapter One: Representing Abortion

Rachel Alpha Johnston Hurst

Part One: Seeing (And Not Seeing) Abortion

Chapter Two: Secrets

Rachel Marie-Crane Williams

Chapter Three: It’s A Boy! Borted: Fetal Bodies, Graphic Abortion, and the Option to Look

Jeannie Ludlow

Chapter Four: Museums and the Material Culture of Abortion

Manon S. Parry

Chapter Five: Who’s Late?: Degrassi, Abortion, History

Michele Byers

Part Two: Fetal Materiality

Chapter Six: Representing the Cause: The Strategic Rebranding of the Anti-Abortion Movement in Canada

Kelly Gordon and Paul Saurette

Chapter Seven: Visual Realignment? The Shifting Visual Terrains of Anti-Abortion Strategies in the Republic of Ireland

Katherine Side

Chapter Eight: Look Like A Provider: Representing the Materiality of the Fetus in Abortion Care Work

Lena Hann and Jeannie Ludlow

Chapter Nine: Dressing Up the Mizuko Jizō: Materializing the Aborted Fetus in Japan

Aurore Yamagata-Montoya

Chapter Ten: Rattling Your Rage: Humour, Provocation, and the SisterSerpents

Claire L. Kovacs

Part Three: Abortion Storytelling and Memoir

Chapter Eleven: Abortion for Beginners

T. L. Cowan

Chapter Twelve: All Politics are Reproductive: Abortion and Environment in Marianne Apostolides’ Deep Salt Water

Heather Latimer

Chapter Thirteen: From Compulsion to Choice? The Changing Representations of Abortion in India

Sucharita Sarkar

Chapter Fourteen: Underground Women’s State: Polish Struggles for Abortion Rights

Dagmara Rode

Part Four: Representations for New Arguments

Chapter Fifteen: "What You Do Hurts All of Us!" When Women Confront Women Through Pro-Life Rhetoric

Jennifer Scuro

Chapter Sixteen: "This is How I was Born on the Operating Table of an Abortion Clinic": Reproductive Decision-Making in Teatro Luna

Melissa Huerta

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

Yoonha Shin

Index

Biography

Rachel Alpha Johnston Hurst is Associate Professor of Women's and Gender Studies at St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia.  Her research is concerned with the relationships between power, embodiment, and (visual) culture, from the perspectives of psychoanalysis and decolonial thought.  She is author of Surface Imaginations: Cosmetic Surgery, Photography, and Skin (2015) and co-editor of Skin, Culture, and Psychoanalysis (2013). Her most recent essays have been published in History of Photography, Feminist Studies, Configurations, and Body & Society.