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Abortion in Popular Culture
A Call to Action
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2023
Summary
Abortion in Popular Culture: A Call to Action brings together scholars who examine depictions of abortion in film, television, literature, and social media. By examining texts ranging from classic television series such as Maude and Roseanne and recent films such as Never Rarely Sometimes Always and Unpregnant to dystopian novels and social-media campaigns, the essays analyze narrative styles, rhetorical strategies, and cinematic techniques, all of which shape cultural attitudes toward abortion. They also analyze cultural shifts, including the willingness or reluctance of networks, cable channels, and filmmakers to acknowledge changing trends in reproductive health such as medication abortion and the role that abortion plays in family planning. As a whole, however, the essays argue that popular culture can play a significant role in destigmatizing abortion by including a wider range of narratives and doing so with nuance and empathy. With reproductive rights under attack in the United States, each essay is a call to action for writers, producers, directors, showrunners, authors, and musicians to use their platforms to tell more positive and accurate stories about abortion.
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Copyright year
2023
ISBN-Print
978-1-6669-1984-4
ISBN-Online
978-1-6669-1985-1
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
260
Product type
Edited Book
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Contents No access
Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access
“Is That a Test from the Supermarket?” No access
“Trust Me, I’m a Doctor” No access
What Post-Roe America Can Learn from the Role of Social Media in the Repeal of Ireland’s Eighth No access
Abortion Politics and the Dystopic Imagination No access
Performing Endurance No access
“I’m Offended by All the Supposed-To’s” No access
“I Gave Her Life” No access
When Stories Are All We Have No access
The Abortion Pill and Other Myths No access
“Abortion is a Mothering Decision” No access
“No Bigger than a Baby Bird” No access
Index No access Pages 251 - 256
About the Editors and Contributors No access Pages 257 - 260
