Abortion in International Popular Culture

The Decision Heard Round the World

Brenda Boudreau, Kelli Maloy (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

320 Seiten

2025
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-6669-5321-3 (ISBN)

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This edited volume analyzes depictions of abortion and reproductive justice in a variety of texts and contexts across Europe, Latin America, and North America. Contributors consider the impacts of these representations in popular culture on public policy, social opinion, and global reproductive justice.

In the wake of the reversal of Roe v. Wade in 2022, Abortion in International Popular Culture: The Decision Heard Round the World examines representations of abortion and reproductive justice across a wide range of popular culture artifacts, literary texts, and activist movements across the world. Contributors analyze examples from Chile, Italy, Malta, Sweden, Canada, France, the U.K., Argentina, Ireland, and Poland to consider the relationships between art and public policy, the impact of American policy on global policy and pro-choice movements, and the transnational influence of cultural representations of abortion.

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

Part I: Abortion Information Is Power

Chapter 1
“I Had No Idea About How Abortions Work”: Unveiling the Unknowns of Swedish Abortion Experiences in Julia Hansen’s Two Lines = Pregnant
Lena R. Hann and Saniya Lee Ghanoui

Chapter 2
Italian Graphic Novels on Abortion: A Traumatic Choice or a Social Right?
Dalila Forni

Chapter 3
Fiction is a Public Arena: Abortion Scenes in Novels from Argentina and Chile (2007–2020)
María Julia Rossi

Part II: Breaking the Silence and Destigmatizing Abortion

Chapter 4
Therapeutic Abortion Narratives in Contemporary Italy: A Mothering, Feminist, and Political Choice
Veronica Frigeni

Chapter 5
What We Talk About When We (Don’t) Talk About Abortion: Breaking Silence and Stigma in Irish Abortion Narratives
Kelli Maloy

Chapter 6
Kerchiefs, Hashtags, and Film: The Role of Popular Culture in Argentina’s Abortion Rights Movement
Lesley Ann Foster

Chapter 7
Abortion is OK. Polish Digital Feminism: From Pro-Choice Advocacy to Pro-Abortion Activism
Dagmara Rode

Part III: The Past, Present, and Future of Reproductive Justice

Chapter 8
The Missed Periods of Period Drama: Abortion, Law, and the Uses of the Past in L’Événement (Happening) and Vera Drake
Melissa Oliver-Powell

Chapter 9
Time, Narrative, Abortion: Revisiting Juno and Parsley Days
Michele Byers

Chapter 10: Staging the Truth: Verbatim Theatre and Abortion Testimonies from Malta and Britain
Jaime Leigh Gray

Erscheinungsdatum	23.01.2025
Co-Autor	Lena R. Hann, Saniya Lee Ghanoui, Dalila Forni
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-6669-5321-0 / 1666953210
ISBN-13	978-1-6669-5321-3 / 9781666953213
Zustand	Neuware