Representing Abortion

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Half Title
Series Information
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of contents
Figures
Contributors
Acknowledgements
1 Representing abortion
	Feminist theory, representation, and fetal images
	Abortion and reproductive justice approaches
	Contemporary abortion stud
	Conclusion
	Note
Part I Seeing (and not seeing) abortion
	2 Secrets
	3 It’s a boy! borted: Fetal bodies, graphic abortion, and the option to look
		Introduction: fetal materiality
		Re-symbolization of the aborted fetus
			The power of iconicity: Mr. Peanutbutter’s balloon
			The fetus as present absence: Saga
		Re-representations of the aborted fetus
			The reimagined fetus: Sextina’s video
			The substantive fetal body: 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days
		Conclusion: the generative fetal body
		Notes
		References
	4 Museums and the material culture of abortion
		Medical museums and the representation of abortion
		The Museum of Contraception and Abortion
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	5 Who’s late?: Degrassi, abortion, history
		Introduction
		Studies of abortion on television
		“Maybe it’s wrong, but I don’t care” (Erica, 1989)
		“My name is Lola Pacini. Yesterday I was pregnant, and now I’m not.” (Lola, 2017)
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
Part II Fetal materiality
	6 Representing the cause: The strategic rebranding of the anti-abortion movement in Canada
		Traditional anti-abortion advocacy in Canada and its contemporary challenges
		Rebranding the movement: “pro-woman,” anti-abortion
		The new movement: RightNow
			The need to rebrand
			Rebranding religion
			(Young) women out front
		Conclusion
		References
	7 Visual realignment?: The shifting visual terrains of anti-abortion strategies in the Republic of Ireland
		Campaigning for No: Save the 8th and Love Both
		Resisting visual realignment
		Conclusion
		Acknowledgements
		Notes
		References
	8 Look like a provider: Representing the materiality of the fetus in abortion care work
		Introduction
		Experiencing abortion
		Provider-scholars and abortion care nuance
		Steps towards multifaceted conversations about the fetus in abortion
			Engage abortion providers
			Evaluate discomfort
			Value complexity and allow tension
			Acknowledge the fetus
			“Look” like a provider
		Notes
		References
	9 Dressing the Mizuko Jizo: Materialising the aborted fetus in Japan
		Introduction
		Through the Western lens
		Materialising the fetus through the Mizuko Jizo
		Mizuko kuyo: normalising abortion
		Dressing the mizuko kuyo: women’s relationships to their aborted fetuses
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	10 Rattling your rage: Humour, provocation, and the SisterSerpents
		Genesis of the SisterSerpents
		SisterSerpents against fetal worship
		Rattling their rage
		Context of other fetal works
		Response to Rattle Your Rage
		Relationships to anti-abortion rhetoric
		Notes
		References
Part III Abortion storytelling and memoir
	11 Abortion for beginners
		Acknowledgements
		Notes
	12 All politics are reproductive: Abortion and environment in Marianne Apostolides’ Deep Salt Water
		All politics are reproductive
		Deep Salt Water
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	13 From compulsion to choice?: The changing representations of abortion in India
		MTP and PCPNDT Acts: cultural biases and confusing representations
		Feminist representations: untangling abortion from sex-selection
		Note
		References
	14 Underground Women’s State: Polish struggles for abortion rights
		Breaking the silence
		Reclaiming the past
		Mobilising a movement
		Notes
		References
Part IV Representations for new arguments
	15 “What you do hurts all of us!”: When women confront women through pro-life rhetoric
		The affective harm of confrontation
		When confrontation is not care
			Confrontation as mentorship
			Confrontation as selective information sharing
			Confrontation through policy and political influence
		Advocacy towards solidarity and against ideology
		A final note
		Notes
		References
	16 “This is how I was born on the operating table of an abortion clinic”: Reproductive decision-making and Coatlicue State in T
		Coatlicue State and Teatro Luna
		Coatlicue’s daughter
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	17 Abortion and the ideology of love in Kathy Acker’s Blood and Guts in High School and Don Quixote, Which Was a Dream
		Notes
		References
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