Interrogating pregnancy loss : feminist writings on abortion, miscarriage and stillbirth / edited by Emily R. M. Lind and Angie Deveau.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lind, Emily R. M., editor.

Deveau, Angie, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pregnancy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 251 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bradford, Ontario : Demeter Press, [2017]

Summary:

Whereas biomedical and feminist literature treat abortion, miscarriage, and stillbirth as differently conceptualized events, this collection explores the connections between these three categories. How have feminist debates and strategies around reproductive choice invigorated the cultural conversation about miscarriage and stillbirth? How can we imagine more nuanced engagements with the spectrum of experiences that are at stake when a pregnancy ends? And how can we effectively create a space where pregnant people contend with the ways that loss makes meaning for those who grieve and/or celebrate the end of pregnancy? This collection centres pregnancy loss as an embodied and social phenomenon within a framework that understands pregnancy as a process with no guaranteed outcomes. Interrogating Pregnancy Loss considers pregnancy as an epistemic source, one that has the capacity to reveal the limits of our collective assumptions about temporality, expectation, narrative, and social legitimacy. By interrogating loss, this collection argues that the lessons learned from loss have the capacity to serve our collective understandings of both the expected and unexpected rhythms of social and reproductive life.

Contents:

Intro

Copyright

Title Page

Artist Statement

Dedication

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

I. BREAKING THE SILENCE

1. Communicating Miscarriage

2. Timeline of a Maternal Breakdown

3. Grief, Shame, and Miscarriage

II. PREGNANCY AS RELATIONAL

4. Believing is Seeing is Believing

5. The Ambiguous Space of Motherhood

6. Full Circle

III. REFRAMING PREGNANCY LOSS

7. Reframing the Devastation and Exclusion Associated with Pregnancy Loss

8. failing

9. Fatphobia, Pregnancy Loss, and My Hegemonic Imagination

10. Missed Miscarriage

11. Full-Term Baby Loss

12. How to Hear a Story

IV. INTERROGATING THE MEDICALIZED LOGICS OF PREGNANCY LOSS

13. A Death Certificate, an Autopsy Report, a Pile of Insurance Claims

14. Failing Fertility

15. A Feminist Perspective on Selective Termination

V. MEMORIALIZING LOSS

16. Enacting Acknowledgement, Meaning, and Acceptance

17. Queering Reproductive Loss

About the Contributors.

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-77258-156-9

OCLC:

1148899440