Full Description
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.
Contents
1. Introduction.- 2. Recognizing Issues of Reproductive Justice in Nineteenth-Century US Literature.- 3. "Learn and Run": Reproductive Oppression and Resistance in the Works of Octavia E. Butler.- 4. Reading Reproductive Justice through Toni Morrison.- 5. Reproductive Justice in Ntozake Shange's "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf".- 6. Reproductive Rights and Reproductive Justice in Recent German-Language Fiction and Film.- 7. Cultivating Access, Cultivating Ignorance: A Survey of Herbal Abortifacients in American Fiction.- 8. Female Narratives of Abortion in Italian Literature From the 1970s to the Present.- 9. Re-Presenting the Un-Presentable: Annie Ernaux's L'évènement and Cristian Mungiu's 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and Two Days.- 10. Re-conceiving the World: Dystopia and Reproductive Justice.- 11. Reproductive and Disability Justice: Deaf Peoples' Right to be Born.- 12. Queer Argonauts for Reproductive Justice.- 13. On the One-Child Policy of China: Reading Ma Jian's Novel The Dark Road.- 14. Pregnancy Self-Help Literature as Disembodiment: An Issue of Reproductive Justice.- 15. Birthing Bodies Delivering Power in Anglophone Literature of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries.- 16. Writing and Birthing on Country: Examining Indigenous Australian Birth Stories from a Reproductive Justice Lens.- 17. Reproductive Experiences of Poor Mothers in India: An Analysis of YouTube Documentaries.- 18. Spain and Structural Infertility: Towards an Integrative Vision of Motherhood in the Novel Quién quiere ser madre by Silvia Nanclares.- 19. "Give me children, or else I die": Baby-hunger, Surrogacy, and Family-Making by Any Means Necessary.- 20. Surrogacy or Sale: Reflecting upon Reproductive Justice through The House for Hidden Mothers and A House of Happy Mothers.- 21. Claiming Motherhood: Reproductive Justice andSurrogacy in Chinese American Literature of the New Millennium.- 22. 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.- 23. State Terror and the Destruction of Families for Reproductive "Management" in Three Argentine Films.- 24. Scroungers, Strivers, and Single Mothers: Reproductive Justice and the British Welfare State in Ken Loach's Social Realism.- 25. Reproductive Justice in Undocumented Women's Memoirs.- 26. Challenging Racialized Motherhood and the Sixties Scoop with Indigenous Theatre.- 27. "I'll Never Be Ready!": Applying a Reproductive Justice Lens in the Lower-Division Literature Classroom.- 28. Teaching Reproductive Justice: Reading Motherhood with Generations X, Y, and Z.- 29. Mayday: Rethinking Reproductive Justice Protests Utilizing Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale.- 30. Not an Easy Read for "Normal" "Colored" People: Conversations on Shange's and Rooney's Literatures of Sexual Citizenship.
