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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.
Introduction / Brenda Boudreau and Kelli Maloy -- Part I: There's No Going Back : Chapter 1: "Is that a test from the supermarket?": how the home pregnancy test changed the representation of abortion in American television and film / Karen Weingarten -- Chapter 2: "Trust me, I'm a doctor": debating reproductive rights in 1960s television dramas / Caryn Murphy -- Chapter 3: What post-Roe American can learn from the role of social media in the repeal of Ireland's Eighth Amendment / Kelli Maloy -- Part II: Creating Space For Alternative Narratives : Chapter 4: Abortion politics and the dystopic imagination / Heather Latimer -- Chapter 5: Performing endurance: the labors of abortion access / Jaime Leigh Gray -- Chapter 6: "I'm offended by all the supposed-to's": HBO's pro-choice influence / Laura S. Washington -- Chapter 7: "I gave her life": Black women, abortion, and healing in Brit Bennett's The Mothers / Patrick S. Allen -- Part III. Call To Action : Chapter 8: When stories are all we have: the role of television when abortion is illegal / Stephanie Herold and Gretchen Sisson -- Chapter 9: The abortion pill and other myths: medication abortion on screen / Cordelia Freeman -- Chapter 10: "Abortion is a mothering decision": how television can challenge the good/bad dichotomy / Brenda Boudreau -- Chapter 11: "No bigger than a baby bird": narrating prochoice fetal materiality / Jeannie Ludlow.
edited by Brenda Boudreau and Kelli Maloy.
Includes bibliographical references and index.