Resistant Reproductions: Pregnancy and Abortion in British Literature and Film (Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature)

By: Fran Bigman

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Synopsis: Resistant Reproductions asks why narratives of pregnancy and abortion emerged in the early twentieth century and what kinds of stories these narratives conveyed. Is it only once pregnancy becomes plannable that it becomes a story worth telling? Abortion is often considered resistant and feminist, while pregnancy is considered domestic and conventional. How can readings of literary narratives challenge this reductive binary?Resistant Reproductions, the first book-length study of both pregnancy and abortion in British culture, addresses these questions by examining pregnancy narratives, including abortion narratives, in British fiction and film from 1907 to 1967. Fiction became a way for writers to explore what new possibilities of reproductive control would mean for the individual, yet there was also much anxiety about who would have control: individuals or the state. While exploring intimate personal experiences of pregnancy and abortion, Resistant Reproductions also asks how literary narratives used reproductive plots to address political issues of gender, class, and eugenics.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:: 9781003856054
Related ISBNs:: 9781032709543, 9781003856030, 9780367416201
Publisher:: Taylor & Francis
Date of Addition:: 03/29/24
Copyrighted By:: Fran Bigman. The right of Fran Bigman to be identified as author of this work has been asserted in accordance with sections
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: History, Entertainment, Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Literature and Fiction, Social Studies, Language Arts
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