The Palgrave Handbook of Reproductive Justice and Literature

Acknowledgments
Contents
Notes on Contributors
List of Figures
Introduction: Reproductive Justice in Literature and Culture
	Reproductive Justice
	Literature and Activism
	Handbook Overview
	Notes
	References
Reproductive Justice
Traces, Glimpses, and Slant Views: Recognizing Issues of Reproductive Justice in Nineteenth-Century US Literature
	Introduction
	A New Age and New Ideas
	Reproductive Justice and the Writing of Antislavery
	Note
	References
“Learn and Run”: Reproductive Oppression and Resistance in the Works of  Octavia E. Butler
	Notes
	References
Reading Reproductive Justice Through Toni Morrison
	Notes
	References
Reproductive Justice in Ntozake Shange’s “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf”
	Reproductive Injustice on African Female Slaves
	The Female Protagonists
	Featured Narratives from Black Women in Ntozake Shange’s Choreopoem
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
Reproductive Rights and Reproductive Justice in Recent German-Language Fiction and Film
	The Right to a Biological Child: Sperm Donation, In-Vitro Fertilization, and Surrogacy
	The Right to Adopt a Child
	The Right to End a Pregnancy—And, Is There a Right to a Healthy Child?
	The Right to Remain Childless
	Notes
	References
The Right Not to Have a Child
Cultivating Access, Cultivating Ignorance: A Survey of Herbal Abortifacients in American Fiction
	“‘T Was She that Learned Me the Proper Use O’ Parsley”: Jewett’s Dunnet Landing Stories
	“That After All Was Her Own Affair”: Edith Summers Kelley’s Weeds
	Post-Roe Herbs and Undue Burdens: Casey, Kincaid, & Morrison
	“Why Didn’t You Ask Me?”: Stewarding Knowledge in the Present
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
Female Narratives of Abortion in Italian Literature from the 1970s to the Present
	Introduction
	Before Abortion Became Legal: Narratives from the 1960s and 1970s
	What About Today? The Case of Piena Di Niente by Alessia Di Giovanni and Darkam
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
Re-Presenting the Un-Presentable: Annie Ernaux’s L’évènement and Cristian Mungiu’s 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and Two Days
	Backstreet Abortion as a Class Issue
	Witnessing as Empathic Unsettlement
	Backstreet Abortion as Feminist Monomyth
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
Re-conceiving the World: Dystopia and Reproductive Justice
	Reproductive Justice and Narratives
	Future Home and Futurity
	The Unnamed Midwife and Contraceptives
	Red Clocks and Self Determination
	Conclusion
	References
The Right to Have a Child: Social, Cultural and Political Constraints
Reproductive and Disability Justice: Deaf Peoples’ Right to Be Born
	The Foreboding Prescience of Long’s Dystopia: Heading Towards “The End”13?
	Life-Writings on and Through Deaf and CODA Bodies
	Conclusion: Telling Stories, Fighting for Justice
	Notes
	References
Queer Argonauts for Reproductive Justice
	Challenging California’s Prop 8 with Visions of Queer and Trans Parenthood
	Connecting Visions of Queer Kinship to the Reproductive Justice Movement
	Notes
	References
On the One-Child Policy of China: Reading Ma Jian’s Novel The Dark Road
	The Dark Tradition
	The Infant Spirit
	The Birth Economy
	The Yangtze River
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
The Right to Have a Child: Pregnancy and Birth
Pregnancy Self-Help Literature as Disembodiment: An Issue of Reproductive Justice
	Introduction
	Reproductive Justice & Birth Justice
		Reproductive Justice
		Birth Justice
	The (Bio)medicalization of Pregnancy
	Pregnancy Self-Help Literature
	Pregnancy Self-Help Literature: Disembodiment as an RJ Issue
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
Birthing Bodies Delivering Power in Anglophone Literature of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
	Introduction
	Birthing as a Literary Blind Spot
	The Silencing of Birthing Bodies: Male Gaze, Violence, and Colonial Obstetrics
	Changing Perspectives on Power: Considering Reproductive Justice and Maternal Ambivalence
	Redefining Power and Maternal Bodies Around a Queer Phenomenology of Birth
	Conclusion: For a New Ethics, Poetics, and Politics of Birth
	References
Writing and Birthing on Country: Examining Indigenous Australian Birth Stories from a Reproductive Justice Lens
	Introduction
	Country and Birth
	Statement of Reflexivity
	Storytelling, RJ, and Poetic Inquiry
	Natalia’s Birth Story: Poetic Inquiry
	Teisha and Marcus’s Birth Story
	Conclusion
	References
Reproductive Experiences of Poor Mothers in India: An Analysis of YouTube Documentaries
	Introduction and Methodology
	The Indian Context: Existing Rights and Schemes
	Documenting the Social Context of Reproductive Storytelling
		Polyvocal Discourse in “It Takes a Village”
		Polyvocal Stories in “Janam aur Jeevan”
	Other Narratives of Poor Mothers
	Comparison with Birthing Vlogs
	The Need for Digitally Ethical Storytelling
	Significant Omissions in the Documentaries
	Conclusion: Impact of Activist Documentaries
	Note
	References
The Right to Have a Child: Infertility, Surrogacy, and Adoption
Spain and Structural Infertility: Towards an Integrative Vision of Motherhood in the Novel Quién Quiere Ser Madre by Silvia Nanclares
	Introduction
	Quién quiere ser madre in a Country like Spain
		The Chimera of Emotional and Employment Stability
		“The Story of the Kinder Little Eggs”
		Bodies in Crisis, Economies in Crisis, Desires in Crisis
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
“Give Me Children, or Else I Die”: Baby-Hunger, Surrogacy, and Family-Making by Any Means Necessary
	Birth Marks
	The Night Ferry
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
Surrogacy or Sale: Reflecting upon Reproductive Justice Through The House for Hidden Mothers and A House of Happy Mothers
	Introduction
	Neoliberal Eugenics and Stratified Reproduction
	“Make in India” and Precarious Gestational Mothers
	Commercial Surrogacy and Reproductive Justice
	Surrogacy as Sexualized Care Work
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
Claiming Motherhood: Reproductive Justice and Surrogacy in Chinese American Literature of the New Millennium
	Introduction
	International/Interracial Surrogacy and Reproductive Justice
	Claiming Motherhood: Nature or Nurture?
	Redefining Good Mothers: Promise or Betrayal?
	Conclusion
	Note
	References
Reimagining the Past, Present, and the Future of Reproductive Bodies in Contemporary Japanese Women’s Fiction: Mieko Kawakami’s Breasts and Eggs and Sayaka Murata’s Vanishing World
	Introduction
	Storytelling, Polyvocality, and Choice in Mieko Kawakami’s Breasts and Eggs
		Growing Up in Poverty: Absent Fathers & “Bad” Mothers
		Female Body: From Menstruation to Cosmetic Surgery
		Reproductive Ethics: Social Critique and Making a Choice
	Reproductive Ustopia in Sayaka Murata’s Vanishing World
		Feminist Science Fiction
		Evolution and Changing Norms: Childbirth Without Sex
		The Eden System: Dystopian Vision of Reproductive Justice
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
The Right to Parent in a Safe Environment
State Terror and the Destruction of Families for Reproductive “Management” in Three Argentine Films
	Introduction
	The Official Story (1986)
	Clandestine Childhood (2011)
	Captive (2005)
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
Scroungers, Strivers, and Single Mothers: Reproductive Justice and the British Welfare State in Ken Loach’s Social Realism
	Introduction
	Setting the Scene: Reproductive Justice and the British Welfare State
	“Domestic Waste Only”: Ken Loach, Welfare Policy, and Precarious Parenting
	Notes
	References
Reproductive Justice in Undocumented Women’s Memoirs
	Introduction
	Securing Physical and Emotional Thriving for Your Children is Reproductive Justice
	Protecting Your Children from Patriarchal Abuse is Reproductive Justice
	Migration Law Reform is Reproductive Justice
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
Ruined Madonna with Child: Challenging Racialized Motherhood and the Sixties Scoop in Indigenous Theatre
	Reproductive Rights and the Indigenous Mother and Child in Canada
	A Reproductive Justice Approach to Theatre
	Dreary and Izzy: The Play
	Notes
	References
Pedagogy and Activism
“I’ll Never Be Ready!”: Applying a Reproductive Justice Lens in the Lower-Division Literature Classroom
	Why Teach Reproductive Justice in the Lower-Division Literature Classroom?
	Introducing Reproductive Justice: An Introduction in the Classroom
	Applying Reproductive Justice: An Introduction to Narrative Texts
	Discussing Reproductive Justice Beyond Abortion and Contraception
	Reflections on Teaching Reproductive Justice: An Introduction at a PWI in Texas
	Appendix: List of Assigned Texts in Gender, Culture, and Representation
		Literature:
		Films/Television:
		Non-Fiction:
	Notes
	References
Teaching Reproductive Justice: Reading Motherhood with Generations X, Y, and Z
	Course Impetus, Design, and Transformations
	Doubled Pedagogy: Un-Teaching and Re-Thinking Motherhood
		I Love Lucy
		African American Women’s Poetry
		Beloved
		After Birth
	Onward
	Appendix: Our Course Description
	Notes
	References
Mayday: Rethinking Reproductive Justice Protests Utilizing Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale
	Introduction
	Environmental Destruction
	Acts of Genocide
	Discussion
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
Not an Easy Read for “Normal” “Colored” People: Conversations on Shange’s and Rooney’s Literatures of Sexual Citizenship
	Acts of Positioning: Introducing Ourselves and These “Works”
	Reproductive Justice and Sex in Public: A Dual Perspective
	The Work of Composing Coming of Age: On Audience, Invitation, and the Centering of Young Sexual Lives
	The Work of Complicating Sexual Innocence
	The Work of Public Art and Reproductive Justice
	References
Index