Representing Abortion

Rachel Alpha Johnston Hurst is Associate Professor of Women's and Gender Studies at St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia. Her research is concerned with the relationships between power, embodiment, and (visual) culture, from the perspectives of psychoanalysis and decolonial thought. She is author of Surface Imaginations: Cosmetic Surgery, Photography, and Skin (2015) and co-editor of Skin, Culture, and Psychoanalysis (2013). Her most recent essays have been published in History of Photography, Feminist Studies, Configurations, and Body & Society.

• Chapter One: Representing Abortion; Part One: Seeing (And Not Seeing) Abortion; Chapter Two: Secrets; Chapter Three: It’s A Boy! Borted: Fetal Bodies, Graphic Abortion, and the Option to Look; Chapter Four: Museums and the Material Culture of Abortion; Chapter Five: Who’s Late?: Degrassi, Abortion, History; Part Two: Fetal Materiality; Chapter Six: Representing the Cause: The Strategic Rebranding of the Anti-Abortion Movement in Canada; Chapter Seven: Visual Realignment? The Shifting Visual Terrains of Anti-Abortion Strategies in the Republic of Ireland; Chapter Eight: Look Like A Provider: Representing the Materiality of the Fetus in Abortion Care Work; Chapter Nine: Dressing Up the Mizuko Jizō: Materializing the Aborted Fetus in Japan; Chapter Ten: Rattling Your Rage: Humour, Provocation, and the SisterSerpents; Part Three: Abortion Storytelling and Memoir; Chapter Eleven: Abortion for Beginners; Chapter Twelve: All Politics are Reproductive: Abortion and Environment in Marianne Apostolides’ Deep Salt Water; Chapter Thirteen: From Compulsion to Choice? The Changing Representations of Abortion in India; Chapter Fourteen: Underground Women’s State: Polish Struggles for Abortion Rights; Part Four: Representations for New Arguments ; Chapter Fifteen: "What You Do Hurts All of Us!" When Women Confront Women Through Pro-Life Rhetoric; Chapter Sixteen: "This is How I was Born on the Operating Table of an Abortion Clinic": Reproductive Decision-Making and Coatlicue State in Teatro Luna; Chapter Seventeen: Abortion and the Ideology of Love in Kathy Acker’s Blood and Guts in High School and Don Quixote, Which Was a Dream

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