When the Rainbow Is Enuf" -- Reproductive Rights and Reproductive Justice in Recent German-Language Fiction and Film -- Part II. The Right Not to Have a Child -- Cultivating Access, Cultivating Ignorance: A Survey of Herbal Abortifacients in American Fiction -- Female Narratives of Abortion in Italian Literature from the 1970s to the Present -- Re-Presenting the Un-Presentable: Annie Ernaux’s L’évènement and Cristian Mungiu’s 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and Two Days -- Re-conceiving the World: Dystopia and Reproductive Justice -- Part III. The Right to Have a Child: Social, Cultural and Political Constraints -- Reproductive and Disability Justice: Deaf Peoples’ Right to Be Born -- Queer Argonauts for Reproductive Justice -- On the One-Child Policy of China: Reading Ma Jian’s Novel The Dark Road -- Part IV. The Right to Have a Child: Pregnancy and Birth -- Pregnancy Self-Help Literature as Disembodiment: An Issue of Reproductive Justice -- Birthing Bodies Delivering Power in Anglophone Literature of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries -- Writing and Birthing on Country: Examining Indigenous Australian Birth Stories from a Reproductive Justice Lens -- Reproductive Experiences of Poor Mothers in India: An Analysis of YouTube Documentaries -- Part V. 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 -- "Give Me Children, or Else I Die": Baby-Hunger, Surrogacy, and Family-Making by Any Means Necessary -- Surrogacy or Sale: Reflecting upon Reproductive Justice Through The House for Hidden Mothers and A House of Happy Mothers -- Claiming Motherhood: Reproductive Justice and Surrogacy in Chinese American Literature of the New Millennium -- 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 -- Part VI. The Right to Parent in a Safe Environment -- State Terror and the Destruction of Families for Reproductive "Management" in Three Argentine Films -- Scroungers, Strivers, and Single Mothers: Reproductive Justice and the British Welfare State in Ken Loach’s Social Realism -- Reproductive Justice in Undocumented Women’s Memoirs -- Ruined Madonna with Child: Challenging Racialized Motherhood and the Sixties Scoop in Indigenous Theatre -- Part VII. Pedagogy and Activism -- "I’ll Never Be Ready!": Applying a Reproductive Justice Lens in the Lower-Division Literature Classroom -- Teaching Reproductive Justice: Reading Motherhood with Generations X, Y, and Z -- Mayday: Rethinking Reproductive Justice Protests Utilizing Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale -- Not an Easy Read for “Normal” “Colored” People: Conversations on Shange’s and Rooney’s Literatures of Sexual Citizenship

Summary This handbook offers a collection of scholarly essays that analyze questions of reproductive justice throughout its cultural representation in global literature and film. It offers analysis of specific texts carefully situated in their evolving historical, economic, and cultural contexts. Reproductive justice is taken beyond the American setting in which the theory and movement began; chapters apply concepts to international realities and literatures from different countries and cultures by covering diverse genres of cultural production, including film, television, YouTube documentaries, drama, short story, novel, memoir, and self-help literature. Each chapter analyzes texts from within the framework of reproductive justice in an interdisciplinary way, including English, Japanese, Italian, Spanish, and German language, literature and culture, comparative literature, film, South Asian fiction, Canadian theatre, writing, gender studies, Deaf studies, disability studies, global health and medical humanities, and sociology. Academics, graduate students and advanced undergraduate students in Literature, Gender, Sexuality and Womens Studies, Cultural Studies, Motherhood Studies, Comparative Literature, History, Sociology, the Medical Humanities, Reproductive Justice, and Human Rights are the main audience of the volume. Beth Widmaier Capo is Edward Capps Professor of Humanities and Professor of English at Illinois College, USA. She earned her M.A. and Ph.D. from Pennsylvania State University, USA. She is the author of Textual Contraception: Birth Control and Modern American Fiction (2007) and co-edited Reproductive Rights Issues in Popular Media: International Perspectives (2017). Laura Lazzari holds a Ph.D. from the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, and a Master of Studies from Oxford, UK. A scholar in Motherhood Studies, she works at the Sasso Corbaro Foundation for the Medical Humanities, Switzerland. She was the recipient of a 2015-2016 AAUW International Postdoctoral Fellowship at Georgetown University, USA, and has lectured for several universities in Switzerland and the United States

Bibliography References -- 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

Notes Print version record

Subject Women's rights in literature.

Reproductive rights.

Reproductive rights

Women's rights in literature

Form Electronic book

Author Capo, Beth Widmaier, 1973- editor.

Lazzari, Laura, editor.

ISBN 9783030995300

3030995305

Other Titles Handbook of reproductive justice and literature

Reproductive justice and literature

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