Descripción del título

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
Monografía
monografia Rebiun36753358 https://catalogo.rebiun.org/rebiun/record/Rebiun36753358 m o d | cr cnu|||||||| 240229s2024 enk o 001 1 eng d 1-03-270954-5 1-003-85603-9 1-003-85605-5 CBUC 991013414603506708 MiAaPQ eng rda pn MiAaPQ MiAaPQ 823.912093561 23 Bigman, Fran 1980-) author Resistant Reproductions Pregnancy and Abortion in British Literature and Film Fran Bigman First edition Abingdon, England Routledge [2024] Abingdon, England Abingdon, England Routledge 2024 1 online resource (194 pages) 1 online resource (194 pages) Text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature Series Includes index Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 Pregnancy as Protest: Speculative Fiction by WWI and Interwar Women Writers Beyond Brave New World -- 2 Blood and Pain and Ugliness: Abortion in the 1930s Writings of Naomi Mitchison -- 3 The Shattered Mould: Rosamond Lehmann and Abortion in 1930s Rhetoric and Fiction -- 4 A Bit of Himself: Male-Authored Abortion Narratives from Waste to Alfie -- 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 -- 6 Babies without Husbands: Unmarried Pregnancy in 1960s British Fiction -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Index 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 English fiction- 20th century- History and criticism Literary criticism. Film criticism. Print version Bigman, Fran. Resistant Reproductions Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group,c2024 9780367416201 Routledge interdisciplinary perspectives on literature