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Beschreibung
This book challenges the association of abortion with the radical and pregnancy with the conventional by exploring the reproductive politics of British literature and film from 1907 when abortion was first used as a critical plot point in literature to 1967 when abortion law was liberalized in England, Scotland, and Wales.
This book challenges the association of abortion with the radical and pregnancy with the conventional by exploring the reproductive politics of British literature and film from 1907 when abortion was first used as a critical plot point in literature to 1967 when abortion law was liberalized in England, Scotland, and Wales.
Über den Autor

Fran Bigman is an independent academic who lives in New York City. She received her PhD and MPhil in English from the University of Cambridge and her BA in History from Brown University.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

Chapter 1. Pregnancy as Protest: Speculative Fiction by WWI and Interwar Women Writers Beyond Brave New World

Chapter 2. Blood and Pain and Ugliness: Abortion in the 1930s Writings of Naomi Mitchison

Chapter 3. The Shattered Mould: Rosamond Lehmann and Abortion in 1930s Rhetoric and Fiction

Chapter 4. A Bit of Himself: Male-Authored Abortion Narratives from Waste to Alfie

Chapter 5. Bubble Baths for Brenda: Pregnancy and Abortion in Saturday Night and Sunday Morning and 'Angry Young Man' narratives in Mid-Century British Novels and Film

Chapter 6. Babies without Husbands: Unmarried Pregnancy in 1960s British Fiction

Conclusion

Works Cited

Index

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2025
Genre: Importe, Lyrik & Dramatik
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781032709567
ISBN-10: 1032709561
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Bigman, Fran
Hersteller: Routledge
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Taylor & Francis Verlag GmbH, Kaufingerstr. 24, D-80331 München, gpsr@taylorandfrancis.com
Maße: 229 x 152 x 11 mm
Von/Mit: Fran Bigman
Erscheinungsdatum: 30.07.2025
Gewicht: 0,293 kg
Artikel-ID: 133626219

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