Reproductive Acts
Sexual Politics in North American Fiction and Film
1st Edition
Published on 1. June 2013
200 pages
978-0-7735-8888-2 (ISBN)
Description
A thought-provoking exploration of how fiction and film can provide ways of understanding reproductive politics.
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Latimer Heather:
Heather Latimer is a lecturer in the Coordinated Arts Program at the University of British Columbia.Heather Latimer is a lecturer in the Coordinated Arts Program at the University of British Columbia.
Heather Latimer is a lecturer in the Coordinated Arts Program at the University of British Columbia.Heather Latimer is a lecturer in the Coordinated Arts Program at the University of British Columbia.
Content
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Reproductive Déjà Vu
- 1 Privacy, Patriarchy, and Abortion: Reproductive Politics in The Handmaid's Tale, Blood and Guts in High School, and Don Quixote
- 2 From Politics to Ethics: Maternal Abjection, Subjectivity, and Community in Instruments of Darkness and Paradise
- 3 Fetal Cyborgs and Monstrous Clones: New Reproductive Technologies in Patchwork Girl and Salt Fish Girl
- 4 The Limits of Citizenship: The Fetus and the Refugee in Children of Men
- Conclusion: Bioreproductive Futures
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index
