{"product_id":"representing-abortion-paperback","title":"Representing Abortion - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRachel Alpha Johnston Hurst\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eRepresenting Abortion\u003c\/em\u003e analyses how artists, writers, performers, and activists make abortion visible, audible, and palpable within contexts dominated by anti-abortion imagery centred on the fetus and the erasure of the pregnant person, challenging the polarisation of conversations about abortion.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book illuminates the manifold ways that abortion is depicted and narrated by artists, performers, clinicians, writers, and activists. This representational work offers nuanced and complex understandings of abortion, personally and politically. Analyses of such representations are urgently needed as access to abortion is diminished and anti-abortion representations of the fetus continue to dominate the cultural horizon for thinking about abortion. Expanding the frame of reference for understanding abortion beyond the anti-abortion use of the fetal image, contributors to this collection push beyond narrow abstractions to examine representations of the experience and procedure of abortion within grounded histories, politics, and social contexts. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe collection is organized into sections around seeing (and not seeing) abortion; fetal materiality; abortion storytelling and memoir; and representations for new arguments. These themes cover a range of topics including abortion visibility, anti-abortion discourse, pro-choice engagements with the fetus, personal experience and media representations. The analyses of such representations counteract anti-abortion rhetoric, carving out space for new arguments for abortion that are more representative and inclusive and asking audiences to envision new ways to advocate for safe abortion access through reproductive justice frameworks. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is an innovative and challenging collection that will be of key interest for scholars studying reproductive rights and reproductive justice, as well as women and gender studies. \u003ci\u003eRepresenting Abortion\u003c\/i\u003e is organized to structure upper year undergraduate and graduate courses on reproductive rights and reproductive justice in a new and engaging way. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRachel Alpha Johnston Hurst \u003c\/strong\u003eis 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 \u003ci\u003eSurface Imaginations: Cosmetic Surgery, Photography, and Skin \u003c\/i\u003e(2015) and co-editor of \u003ci\u003eSkin, Culture, and Psychoanalysis\u003c\/i\u003e (2013). Her most recent essays have been published in \u003ci\u003eHistory of Photography, Feminist Studies, Configurations, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eBody \u0026amp; Society.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 270\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.57 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 30, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47409353490610,"sku":"9780367540029","price":100.42,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/80eabf2de5350401361f9412e3570791.webp?v=1778264227","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/representing-abortion-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}