Abortion in Popular Culture

A Call to Action
Herausgeber: Boudreau, Brenda; Maloy, Kelli

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Produktbeschreibung

Abortion in Popular Culture: A Call to Action examines representations of abortion in popular culture, including literature, television and film, and social media. This essay collection emphasizes the importance of diverse, positive, and nuanced portrayals of abortion in challenging misconceptions about who seeks abortions and why.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. März 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 615g
• ISBN-13: 9781666919844
• ISBN-10: 1666919845
• Artikelnr.: 67186191

Autorenporträt

Brenda Boudreau is professor of English at McKendree University. Kelli Maloy is associate professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: There's No Going Back
Chapter 1. "Is That a Test from the Supermarket?":How the Home Pregnancy
Test Changed the Representation of Abortion in American Television and Film
Karen Weingarten
Chapter 2. "Trust Me, I'm a Doctor": Debating Reproductive Rights in 1960s
Television Dramas
Caryn Murphy
Chapter 3. What Post-Roe America Can Learn from the Role of Social Media in
the Repeal of Ireland's Eighth Amendment
Kelli Maloy
Part II: Creating Space for Alternative Narratives
Chapter 4. Abortion Politics and the Dystopic Imagination
Heather Latimer
Chapter 5. Performing Endurance: The Labors of Abortion Access
Jaime Leigh Gray
Chapter 6. "I'm Offended by All the Supposed-to's:" HBOs Pro-Choice
Influence
Laura S. Witherington
Chapter 7. "I Gave Her Life": Black Women, Abortion, and Healing in Brit
Bennett's The Mothers
Patrick S. Allen
Part III: Call to Action
Chapter 8. When Stories Are All We Have: The Role of Television in a Future
in Which Abortion is Illegal
Steph Herold and Gretchen Sisson
Chapter 9. The Abortion Pill and Other Myths: Medication Abortion on Screen
Cordelia Freeman
Chapter 10. "Abortion is a Mothering Decision": How Television Can
Challenge the Good/Bad Dichotomy
Brenda Boudreau
Chapter 11. "No Bigger than a Baby Bird": Narrating Prochoice Fetal
Materiality
Jeannie Ludlow