Overview
- Engages with debates surrounding reproduction and social policy through literary and cultural analysis
- Incorporates woman and gender studies, social justice, and motherhood studies
- Examines a range of genres including memoir, fiction, graphic novels, science fiction, and film
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Table of contents (30 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Reproductive Justice
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The Right Not to Have a Child
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The Right to Have a Child: Social, Cultural and Political Constraints
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The Right to Have a Child: Pregnancy and Birth
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About this book
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 healthand medical humanities, and sociology. Academics, graduate students and advanced undergraduate students in Literature, Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies, Cultural Studies, Motherhood Studies, Comparative Literature, History, Sociology, the Medical Humanities, Reproductive Justice, and Human Rights are the main audience of the volume.
Reviews
“This collection is an impressive and timely contribution to the study of reproductive justice. Wide-ranging in theoretical approaches and inclusive of many kinds of texts from multiple nations, languages and periods, these essays constitute essential reading for any literary or cultural studies scholar interested in reproductive rights or their abrogation. The volume’s lens of reproductive justice effectively brings into focus representations of both the oppressive, such as eugenics, and the liberatory, such as reproductive autonomy.” (Daylanne K. English, Professor of English, Macalester College, USA)
“As the first collection of literary scholarship focusing on reproductive justice, this handbook is an innovative, vital, and essential contribution to contemporary feminist theory and activism on reproductive justice. In taking up and applying reproductive justice as a lens to analyze literary and cultural productions across many genres and from diverse perspectives, the handbook yields startlingly new and necessary insights in order to enrich and extend the conversation on the possibilities of reproductive justice.” (Andrea O’Reilly, Professor at the School of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies, York University, Canada, author of Matricentric Feminism: Theory, Activism, Practice (2021), and editor of Maternal Theory: The Essential Readings (2021))
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Palgrave Handbook of Reproductive Justice and Literature
Editors: Beth Widmaier Capo, Laura Lazzari
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-99530-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-99529-4Published: 11 September 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-99532-4Published: 12 September 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-99530-0Published: 10 September 2022
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXII, 667
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 14 illustrations in colour
Topics: Literary Theory, Contemporary Literature, Cultural Studies, Legal History, Ethics, Sociology, general