
The Last Safe Abortion
Carmen Winant(Author)
Self Publish, Be Happy
Published on 15. March 2024
Book
Hardback
172 pages
978-1-7396067-5-6 (ISBN)
Description
Focusing on the near-fifty-year period in which abortion was legal in the United States (1973-2022), The Last Safe Abortion recognises the care, advocacy, and community-building of abortion workers. Artist Carmen Winant draws from over a dozen personal, organisational, and institutional archives from across the Midwest, in Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska, Illinois, Kentucky, North Dakota, and Ohio. The photographs themselves are surprisingly regular: women answer the phone, sterilize medical equipment, throw staff birthday parties, offer workshops, and schedule appointments. In centring the tender, quotidian, and routine acts that inform this healthcare work, Winant works to counter the ways anti-choice activists have weaponised photography by proposing a visuality that attends to abortion care. The Last Safe Abortion presents a selection of this vast collection of photographs, accompanied by a text by Winant.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
MACK
Dimensions
Height: 220 mm
Width: 305 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-7396067-5-6 (9781739606756)
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