Abortion in International Popular Culture - The Decision Heard Round the World

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.

List of contents

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

About the author

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

Product details

• Authors: Brenda Boudreau, Brenda Maloy Boudreau
• Assisted by: Boudreau Brenda (Editor), Brenda Boudreau (Editor), Kelli Maloy (Editor), Maloy Kelli (Editor)
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.12.2024
• EAN: 9781666953213
• ISBN: 978-1-66695-321-3
• No. of pages: 320
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Abortion & Birth Control, Ethical issues: abortion & birth control, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, Population and Demography, Film Theory & Criticism, Ethical issues: abortion and birth control, Film history, theory or criticism