Resistant Reproductions

Pregnancy and Abortion in British Literature and Film

Fran Bigman

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Routledge
29 March 2024

Film theory & criticism; Literary studies: from c 1900 -; Ethical issues: abortion & birth control

Series: Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature

Resistant Reproductions asks why narratives of pregnancy and abortion emerged in the early twentieth century and what kinds of stories these narratives conveyed. Is it only once pregnancy becomes plannable that it becomes a story worth telling? Abortion is often considered resistant and feminist, while pregnancy is considered domestic and conventional. How can readings of literary narratives challenge this reductive binary?

Resistant Reproductions, the first book-length study of both pregnancy and abortion in British culture, addresses these questions by examining pregnancy narratives, including abortion narratives, in British fiction and film from 1907 to 1967. Fiction became a way for writers to explore what new possibilities of reproductive control would mean for the individual, yet there was also much anxiety about who would have control: individuals or the state. While exploring intimate personal experiences of pregnancy and abortion, Resistant Reproductions also asks how literary narratives used reproductive plots to address political issues of gender, class, and eugenics.

By: Fran Bigman
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 1.140kg
ISBN: 9780367416201
ISBN 10: 0367416204
Series: Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature
Pages: 188
Publication Date: 29 March 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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

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.