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.
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