Resistant Reproductions

Pregnancy and Abortion in British Literature and Film

in English, 222 pages,
Routledge - Taylor & Francis Group, March 22, 2024
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Resistant Reproductions, the first book-length study of both pregnancy and abortion in British culture, examines 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.