1st Edition
Resistant Reproductions Pregnancy and Abortion in British Literature and Film
Introduction
Chapter 1. Pregnancy as Protest: Speculative Fiction by WWI and Interwar Women Writers Beyond Brave New World
Chapter 2. Blood and Pain and Ugliness: Abortion in the 1930s Writings of Naomi Mitchison
Chapter 3. The Shattered Mould: Rosamond Lehmann and Abortion in 1930s Rhetoric and Fiction
Chapter 4. A Bit of Himself: Male-Authored Abortion Narratives from Waste to Alfie
Chapter 5. Bubble Baths for Brenda: Pregnancy and Abortion in Saturday Night and Sunday Morning and ‘Angry Young Man’ narratives in Mid-Century British Novels and Film
Chapter 6. Babies without Husbands: Unmarried Pregnancy in 1960s British Fiction
Conclusion
Works Cited
Index
Biography
Fran Bigman is an independent academic who lives in New York City. She received her PhD and MPhil in English from the University of Cambridge and her BA in History from Brown University.
