Interrogating pregnancy loss feminist writings on abortion, miscarriage, and stillbirth / edited by Emily R. M. Lind and Angie Deveau.
| Other author | Lind, Emily R. M. |
| Other author | Deveau, Angie. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Bradford, Ontario : Demeter Press, [2017] |
| Description | xii, 251 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Portion of title | Feminist writings on abortion, miscarriage, and stillbirth |
| Contents | Toward a feminist epistemology of loss / Emily R.M. Lind -- Communicating miscarriage: coping with loss, uncertainty, and self-imposed stigma / Masha Sukovic and Margie Serrato -- Timeline of a maternal breakdown: a feminist mother's blog post about her abortion experience / Angie Deveau -- Grief, shame, and miscarriage / Nancy Gerber -- Believing is seeing is believing: elective abortion and visual closure / Mary Thompson -- The ambiguous space of motherhood: the experience of stillborn / Maya E. Bhave -- Full circle: exploring the maternal ambivalence of a motherless daughter / Natalie Morning -- Reframing the devastation and exclusion associated with pregnancy loss: a normal and growth-enhancing component of the physiological female continuum / Keren Epstein-Gilboa -- failing / j wallace skelton -- Fatphobia, pregnancy loss, and my hegemonic imagination: a story of two abortions / Emily R.M. Lind -- Missed miscarriage / Robin Silbergleid -- Full-term baby loss: a how-to guide for mothers / Rachel O'Donnell -- How to hear a story: reflections on the anniversary of my rape / Rhobi Jacobs -- A death certificate, an autopsy report, a pile of insurance claims / Elizabeth Heineman -- Failing infertility: a case to queer the rhetoric of infertility / Maria Novotny -- A feminist perspective on selective termination / Brittany Irvine -- Enacting acknowledgment, meaning, and acceptance: personal ceremony and ritual as helpful ways to engage with feelings of loss after abortion / Miriam Rose Brooker -- Queering reproductive loss: exploring grief and memorialization / Christa Craven and Elizabeth Peel. |
| Abstract | "Whereas biomedical and feminist literature treat abortion, miscarriage, and stillbirth as differently conceptualized events, this collection explores the connections between these three categories. How have feminist debates and strategies around reproductive choice invigorated the cultural conversation about miscarriage, and stillbirth? How can we imagine more nuanced engagements with the spectrum of experiences that are at stake when a pregnancy ends? And how can we effectively create a space where pregnant people contend with the ways that loss makes meaning for those who grieve and/or celebrate the end of pregnancy? This collection centers pregnancy loss as an embodied and social phenomenon within a framework that understands pregnancy as a process with no guaranteed outcomes. Interrogating Pregnancy Loss considers pregnancy as an epistemic source, one that has the capacity to reveal the limits of our collective assumptions about temporality, expectation, narrative, and social legitimacy. By interrogating loss, this collection argues that the lessons learned from loss have the capacity to serve our collective understandings of both the expected and unexpected rhythms of social and reproductive life."-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2019410812 |
| ISBN | 9781772580235 |
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