Fran Bigman

Resistant Reproductions

Pregnancy and Abortion in British Literature and Film

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Produktbeschreibung

This book challenges the association of abortion with the radical and pregnancy with the conventional by exploring the reproductive politics of British literature and film from 1907 when abortion was first used as a critical plot point in literature to 1967 when abortion law was liberalized in England, Scotland, and Wales.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 188
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. März 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9780367416201
• ISBN-10: 0367416204
• Artikelnr.: 69483516

Autorenporträt

Fran Bigman is an independent academic who lives in New York City. She received her PhD and MPhil in English from the University of Cambridge and her BA in History from Brown University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter 1. Pregnancy as Protest: Speculative Fiction by WWI and Interwar
Women Writers Beyond Brave New World
Chapter 2. Blood and Pain and Ugliness: Abortion in the 1930s Writings of
Naomi Mitchison
Chapter 3. The Shattered Mould: Rosamond Lehmann and Abortion in 1930s
Rhetoric and Fiction
Chapter 4. A Bit of Himself: Male-Authored Abortion Narratives from Waste
to Alfie
Chapter 5. Bubble Baths for Brenda: Pregnancy and Abortion in Saturday
Night and Sunday Morning and 'Angry Young Man' narratives in Mid-Century
British Novels and Film
Chapter 6. Babies without Husbands: Unmarried Pregnancy in 1960s British
Fiction
Conclusion
Works Cited
Index