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Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- Introduction: Reproductive Justice in Literature and Culture -- Reproductive Justice -- Literature and Activism -- Handbook Overview -- Notes -- References -- Reproductive Justice -- Traces, Glimpses, and Slant Views: Recognizing Issues of Reproductive Justice in Nineteenth-Century US Literature -- Introduction -- A New Age and New Ideas -- Reproductive Justice and the Writing of Antislavery -- Note -- References -- "Learn and Run": Reproductive Oppression and Resistance in the Works of Octavia E. Butler -- Notes -- References -- Reading Reproductive Justice Through Toni Morrison -- Notes -- References -- Reproductive Justice in Ntozake Shange's "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf" -- Reproductive Injustice on African Female Slaves -- The Female Protagonists -- Featured Narratives from Black Women in Ntozake Shange's Choreopoem -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Reproductive Rights and Reproductive Justice in Recent German-Language Fiction and Film -- The Right to a Biological Child: Sperm Donation, In-Vitro Fertilization, and Surrogacy -- The Right to Adopt a Child -- The Right to End a Pregnancy-And, Is There a Right to a Healthy Child? -- The Right to Remain Childless -- Notes -- References -- The Right Not to Have a Child -- Cultivating Access, Cultivating Ignorance: A Survey of Herbal Abortifacients in American Fiction -- "'T Was She that Learned Me the Proper Use O' Parsley": Jewett's Dunnet Landing Stories -- "That After All Was Her Own Affair": Edith Summers Kelley's Weeds -- Post-Roe Herbs and Undue Burdens: Casey, Kincaid, & -- Morrison -- "Why Didn't You Ask Me?": Stewarding Knowledge in the Present -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References. |
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Female Narratives of Abortion in Italian Literature from the 1970s to the Present -- Introduction -- Before Abortion Became Legal: Narratives from the 1960s and 1970s -- What About Today? The Case of Piena Di Niente by Alessia Di Giovanni and Darkam -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Re-Presenting the Un-Presentable: Annie Ernaux's L'évènement and Cristian Mungiu's 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and Two Days -- Backstreet Abortion as a Class Issue -- Witnessing as Empathic Unsettlement -- Backstreet Abortion as Feminist Monomyth -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Re-conceiving the World: Dystopia and Reproductive Justice -- Reproductive Justice and Narratives -- Future Home and Futurity -- The Unnamed Midwife and Contraceptives -- Red Clocks and Self Determination -- Conclusion -- References -- The Right to Have a Child: Social, Cultural and Political Constraints -- Reproductive and Disability Justice: Deaf Peoples' Right to Be Born -- The Foreboding Prescience of Long's Dystopia: Heading Towards "The End"13? -- Life-Writings on and Through Deaf and CODA Bodies -- Conclusion: Telling Stories, Fighting for Justice -- Notes -- References -- Queer Argonauts for Reproductive Justice -- Challenging California's Prop 8 with Visions of Queer and Trans Parenthood -- Connecting Visions of Queer Kinship to the Reproductive Justice Movement -- Notes -- References -- On the One-Child Policy of China: Reading Ma Jian's Novel The Dark Road -- The Dark Tradition -- The Infant Spirit -- The Birth Economy -- The Yangtze River -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- The Right to Have a Child: Pregnancy and Birth -- Pregnancy Self-Help Literature as Disembodiment: An Issue of Reproductive Justice -- Introduction -- Reproductive Justice & -- Birth Justice -- Reproductive Justice -- Birth Justice -- The (Bio)medicalization of Pregnancy -- Pregnancy Self-Help Literature. |
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Pregnancy Self-Help Literature: Disembodiment as an RJ Issue -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Birthing Bodies Delivering Power in Anglophone Literature of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries -- Introduction -- Birthing as a Literary Blind Spot -- The Silencing of Birthing Bodies: Male Gaze, Violence, and Colonial Obstetrics -- Changing Perspectives on Power: Considering Reproductive Justice and Maternal Ambivalence -- Redefining Power and Maternal Bodies Around a Queer Phenomenology of Birth -- Conclusion: For a New Ethics, Poetics, and Politics of Birth -- References -- Writing and Birthing on Country: Examining Indigenous Australian Birth Stories from a Reproductive Justice Lens -- Introduction -- Country and Birth -- Statement of Reflexivity -- Storytelling, RJ, and Poetic Inquiry -- Natalia's Birth Story: Poetic Inquiry -- Teisha and Marcus's Birth Story -- Conclusion -- References -- Reproductive Experiences of Poor Mothers in India: An Analysis of YouTube Documentaries -- Introduction and Methodology -- The Indian Context: Existing Rights and Schemes -- Documenting the Social Context of Reproductive Storytelling -- Polyvocal Discourse in "It Takes a Village" -- Polyvocal Stories in "Janam aur Jeevan" -- Other Narratives of Poor Mothers -- Comparison with Birthing Vlogs -- The Need for Digitally Ethical Storytelling -- Significant Omissions in the Documentaries -- Conclusion: Impact of Activist Documentaries -- Note -- References -- The Right to Have a Child: Infertility, Surrogacy, and Adoption -- Spain and Structural Infertility: Towards an Integrative Vision of Motherhood in the Novel Quién Quiere Ser Madre by Silvia Nanclares -- Introduction -- Quién quiere ser madre in a Country like Spain -- The Chimera of Emotional and Employment Stability -- "The Story of the Kinder Little Eggs". |
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Bodies in Crisis, Economies in Crisis, Desires in Crisis -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- "Give Me Children, or Else I Die": Baby-Hunger, Surrogacy, and Family-Making by Any Means Necessary -- Birth Marks -- The Night Ferry -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Surrogacy or Sale: Reflecting upon Reproductive Justice Through The House for Hidden Mothers and A House of Happy Mothers -- Introduction -- Neoliberal Eugenics and Stratified Reproduction -- "Make in India" and Precarious Gestational Mothers -- Commercial Surrogacy and Reproductive Justice -- Surrogacy as Sexualized Care Work -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Claiming Motherhood: Reproductive Justice and Surrogacy in Chinese American Literature of the New Millennium -- Introduction -- International/Interracial Surrogacy and Reproductive Justice -- Claiming Motherhood: Nature or Nurture? -- Redefining Good Mothers: Promise or Betrayal? -- Conclusion -- Note -- References -- Reimagining the Past, Present, and the Future of Reproductive Bodies in Contemporary Japanese Women's Fiction: Mieko Kawakami's Breasts and Eggs and Sayaka Murata's Vanishing World -- Introduction -- Storytelling, Polyvocality, and Choice in Mieko Kawakami's Breasts and Eggs -- Growing Up in Poverty: Absent Fathers & -- "Bad" Mothers -- Female Body: From Menstruation to Cosmetic Surgery -- Reproductive Ethics: Social Critique and Making a Choice -- Reproductive Ustopia in Sayaka Murata's Vanishing World -- Feminist Science Fiction -- Evolution and Changing Norms: Childbirth Without Sex -- The Eden System: Dystopian Vision of Reproductive Justice -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- The Right to Parent in a Safe Environment -- State Terror and the Destruction of Families for Reproductive "Management" in Three Argentine Films -- Introduction -- The Official Story (1986) -- Clandestine Childhood (2011). |
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Captive (2005) -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Scroungers, Strivers, and Single Mothers: Reproductive Justice and the British Welfare State in Ken Loach's Social Realism -- Introduction -- Setting the Scene: Reproductive Justice and the British Welfare State -- "Domestic Waste Only": Ken Loach, Welfare Policy, and Precarious Parenting -- Notes -- References -- Reproductive Justice in Undocumented Women's Memoirs -- Introduction -- Securing Physical and Emotional Thriving for Your Children is Reproductive Justice -- Protecting Your Children from Patriarchal Abuse is Reproductive Justice -- Migration Law Reform is Reproductive Justice -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Ruined Madonna with Child: Challenging Racialized Motherhood and the Sixties Scoop in Indigenous Theatre -- Reproductive Rights and the Indigenous Mother and Child in Canada -- A Reproductive Justice Approach to Theatre -- Dreary and Izzy: The Play -- Notes -- References -- Pedagogy and Activism -- "I'll Never Be Ready!": Applying a Reproductive Justice Lens in the Lower-Division Literature Classroom -- Why Teach Reproductive Justice in the Lower-Division Literature Classroom? -- Introducing Reproductive Justice: An Introduction in the Classroom -- Applying Reproductive Justice: An Introduction to Narrative Texts -- Discussing Reproductive Justice Beyond Abortion and Contraception -- Reflections on Teaching Reproductive Justice: An Introduction at a PWI in Texas -- Appendix: List of Assigned Texts in Gender, Culture, and Representation -- Literature: -- Films/Television: -- Non-Fiction: -- Notes -- References -- Teaching Reproductive Justice: Reading Motherhood with Generations X, Y, and Z -- Course Impetus, Design, and Transformations -- Doubled Pedagogy: Un-Teaching and Re-Thinking Motherhood -- I Love Lucy -- African American Women's Poetry -- Beloved -- After Birth. |
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Lazzari, Laura.
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9783030995300 (electronic bk.) |
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