1st Edition

Transnational Visual Activism for Women’s Reproductive Rights My Body, My Choice

Edited By Basia Sliwinska Copyright 2025
234 Pages 20 Color & 28 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

234 Pages 20 Color & 28 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

234 Pages 20 Color & 28 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Focusing on art practices that advocate, raise consciousness, and educate about the human right to reproductive health, this book analyses and compares forms of feminist artivism to interrogate bodily rights while closely examining the lived experiences of women and their right of free choice. The transnational framing engages with resurgent imperialist and colonial ambitions across global... Read more

1. Birthing Angel of Carriance

Bracha L. Ettinger

2. Soft Advocacy: Using Textile Art to Enhance Lactation Care After Infant Loss

Rebecca Mayo, Lucy Irvine, Katherine Carroll, and Debbie Noble-Carr

3. My First Year Too: Obstetric Violence and Maternal Subjectivity

Jana Kukaine

4. Birth Rites Collection: Imagining an Activist Art Collection

Nora Heidorn

5. The Geopolitics of Reclaiming the Body in the Precariousness of Life: Contemporary Women’s Global Art Practices

Kitty Zijlmans

6. Four Heads, One ‘Pussy’: The Struggle for Bodily Autonomy and Reproductive Rights in the Work of the Feminist Artist Collective ZOiNA

Raquel Ermida and Bruno Marques

7. Sexual and Reproductive Rights in Chile: Feminist Creativity, Strength, and Fight for Justice

Lieta Valeria Vivaldi and Elise Denis-Ramirez

8. ‘I Will Post About It’: Aleta Valente’s Production as Art Activism for Brazilian Reproductive Rights

Rachel Augusto and Thayna Targa

9. Global Scream! Polish Feminist Protest Art in Berlin

Anna Krenz

10. ‘You Will Never Walk Alone’: The Feminist Contemporary Arts Activism of Marta Frej and Monika Drożyńska in Support of Reproductive Rights in Poland

Basia Sliwinska

11. Andrea Bowers, the Army of Three, and the Writing of Reproductive Justice

Kimberly Lamm

12. Bang Geul Han: Weaving Abortion Rights, Word by Word

Monika Fabijanska

13. Right to Be (Trans), and (Abortion by) Own Will: How Activists Challenged Finland’s Restrictive Legislation

Anna-Mari Almila

14. Thank God for Abortion: Queering and Decolonising the Struggle for Reproductive Freedom

Vanessa Parent

Biography

Basia Sliwinska is a Researcher at the Art History Institute (NOVA FCSH, Lisbon). She is on the Editorial Board of Third Text.