The Palgrave Handbook of Reproductive Justice and Literature

Acknowledgments
Contents
Notes on Contributors
List of Figures
Introduction: Reproductive Justice in Literature and Culture
Reproductive Justice
Literature and Activism
Handbook Overview
Notes
References
Reproductive Justice
Traces, Glimpses, and Slant Views: Recognizing Issues of Reproductive Justice in Nineteenth-Century US Literature
Introduction
A New Age and New Ideas
Reproductive Justice and the Writing of Antislavery
Note
References
“Learn and Run”: Reproductive Oppression and Resistance in the Works of  Octavia E. Butler
Notes
References
Reading Reproductive Justice Through Toni Morrison
Notes
References
Reproductive Justice in Ntozake Shange’s “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf”
Reproductive Injustice on African Female Slaves
The Female Protagonists
Featured Narratives from Black Women in Ntozake Shange’s Choreopoem
Conclusion
Notes
References
Reproductive Rights and Reproductive Justice in Recent German-Language Fiction and Film
The Right to a Biological Child: Sperm Donation, In-Vitro Fertilization, and Surrogacy
The Right to Adopt a Child
The Right to End a Pregnancy—And, Is There a Right to a Healthy Child?
The Right to Remain Childless
Notes
References
The Right Not to Have a Child
Cultivating Access, Cultivating Ignorance: A Survey of Herbal Abortifacients in American Fiction
“‘T Was She that Learned Me the Proper Use O’ Parsley”: Jewett’s Dunnet Landing Stories
“That After All Was Her Own Affair”: Edith Summers Kelley’s Weeds
Post-Roe Herbs and Undue Burdens: Casey, Kincaid, & Morrison
“Why Didn’t You Ask Me?”: Stewarding Knowledge in the Present
Conclusion
Notes
References
Female Narratives of Abortion in Italian Literature from the 1970s to the Present
Introduction
Before Abortion Became Legal: Narratives from the 1960s and 1970s
What About Today? The Case of Piena Di Niente by Alessia Di Giovanni and Darkam
Conclusion
Notes
References
Re-Presenting the Un-Presentable: Annie Ernaux’s L’évènement and Cristian Mungiu’s 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and Two Days
Backstreet Abortion as a Class Issue
Witnessing as Empathic Unsettlement
Backstreet Abortion as Feminist Monomyth
Conclusion
Notes
References
Re-conceiving the World: Dystopia and Reproductive Justice
Reproductive Justice and Narratives
Future Home and Futurity
The Unnamed Midwife and Contraceptives
Red Clocks and Self Determination
Conclusion
References
The Right to Have a Child: Social, Cultural and Political Constraints
Reproductive and Disability Justice: Deaf Peoples’ Right to Be Born
The Foreboding Prescience of Long’s Dystopia: Heading Towards “The End”13?
Life-Writings on and Through Deaf and CODA Bodies
Conclusion: Telling Stories, Fighting for Justice
Notes
References
Queer Argonauts for Reproductive Justice
Challenging California’s Prop 8 with Visions of Queer and Trans Parenthood
Connecting Visions of Queer Kinship to the Reproductive Justice Movement
Notes
References
On the One-Child Policy of China: Reading Ma Jian’s Novel The Dark Road
The Dark Tradition
The Infant Spirit
The Birth Economy
The Yangtze River
Conclusion
Notes
References
The Right to Have a Child: Pregnancy and Birth
Pregnancy Self-Help Literature as Disembodiment: An Issue of Reproductive Justice
Introduction
Reproductive Justice & Birth Justice
Reproductive Justice
Birth Justice
The (Bio)medicalization of Pregnancy
Pregnancy Self-Help Literature
Pregnancy Self-Help Literature: Disembodiment as an RJ Issue
Conclusion
Notes
References
Birthing Bodies Delivering Power in Anglophone Literature of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
Introduction
Birthing as a Literary Blind Spot
The Silencing of Birthing Bodies: Male Gaze, Violence, and Colonial Obstetrics
Changing Perspectives on Power: Considering Reproductive Justice and Maternal Ambivalence
Redefining Power and Maternal Bodies Around a Queer Phenomenology of Birth
Conclusion: For a New Ethics, Poetics, and Politics of Birth
References
Writing and Birthing on Country: Examining Indigenous Australian Birth Stories from a Reproductive Justice Lens
Introduction
Country and Birth
Statement of Reflexivity
Storytelling, RJ, and Poetic Inquiry
Natalia’s Birth Story: Poetic Inquiry
Teisha and Marcus’s Birth Story
Conclusion
References
Reproductive Experiences of Poor Mothers in India: An Analysis of YouTube Documentaries
Introduction and Methodology
The Indian Context: Existing Rights and Schemes
Documenting the Social Context of Reproductive Storytelling
Polyvocal Discourse in “It Takes a Village”
Polyvocal Stories in “Janam aur Jeevan”
Other Narratives of Poor Mothers
Comparison with Birthing Vlogs
The Need for Digitally Ethical Storytelling
Significant Omissions in the Documentaries
Conclusion: Impact of Activist Documentaries
Note
References
The Right to Have a Child: Infertility, Surrogacy, and Adoption
Spain and Structural Infertility: Towards an Integrative Vision of Motherhood in the Novel Quién Quiere Ser Madre by Silvia Nanclares
Introduction
Quién quiere ser madre in a Country like Spain
The Chimera of Emotional and Employment Stability
“The Story of the Kinder Little Eggs”
Bodies in Crisis, Economies in Crisis, Desires in Crisis
Conclusion
Notes
References
“Give Me Children, or Else I Die”: Baby-Hunger, Surrogacy, and Family-Making by Any Means Necessary
Birth Marks
The Night Ferry
Conclusion
Notes
References
Surrogacy or Sale: Reflecting upon Reproductive Justice Through The House for Hidden Mothers and A House of Happy Mothers
Introduction
Neoliberal Eugenics and Stratified Reproduction
“Make in India” and Precarious Gestational Mothers
Commercial Surrogacy and Reproductive Justice
Surrogacy as Sexualized Care Work
Conclusion
Notes
References
Claiming Motherhood: Reproductive Justice and Surrogacy in Chinese American Literature of the New Millennium
Introduction
International/Interracial Surrogacy and Reproductive Justice
Claiming Motherhood: Nature or Nurture?
Redefining Good Mothers: Promise or Betrayal?
Conclusion
Note
References
Reimagining the Past, Present, and the Future of Reproductive Bodies in Contemporary Japanese Women’s Fiction: Mieko Kawakami’s Breasts and Eggs and Sayaka Murata’s Vanishing World
Introduction
Storytelling, Polyvocality, and Choice in Mieko Kawakami’s Breasts and Eggs
Growing Up in Poverty: Absent Fathers & “Bad” Mothers
Female Body: From Menstruation to Cosmetic Surgery
Reproductive Ethics: Social Critique and Making a Choice
Reproductive Ustopia in Sayaka Murata’s Vanishing World
Feminist Science Fiction
Evolution and Changing Norms: Childbirth Without Sex
The Eden System: Dystopian Vision of Reproductive Justice
Conclusion
Notes
References
The Right to Parent in a Safe Environment
State Terror and the Destruction of Families for Reproductive “Management” in Three Argentine Films
Introduction
The Official Story (1986)
Clandestine Childhood (2011)
Captive (2005)
Conclusion
Notes
References
Scroungers, Strivers, and Single Mothers: Reproductive Justice and the British Welfare State in Ken Loach’s Social Realism
Introduction
Setting the Scene: Reproductive Justice and the British Welfare State
“Domestic Waste Only”: Ken Loach, Welfare Policy, and Precarious Parenting
Notes
References
Reproductive Justice in Undocumented Women’s Memoirs
Introduction
Securing Physical and Emotional Thriving for Your Children is Reproductive Justice
Protecting Your Children from Patriarchal Abuse is Reproductive Justice
Migration Law Reform is Reproductive Justice
Conclusion
Notes
References
Ruined Madonna with Child: Challenging Racialized Motherhood and the Sixties Scoop in Indigenous Theatre
Reproductive Rights and the Indigenous Mother and Child in Canada
A Reproductive Justice Approach to Theatre
Dreary and Izzy: The Play
Notes
References
Pedagogy and Activism
“I’ll Never Be Ready!”: Applying a Reproductive Justice Lens in the Lower-Division Literature Classroom
Why Teach Reproductive Justice in the Lower-Division Literature Classroom?
Introducing Reproductive Justice: An Introduction in the Classroom
Applying Reproductive Justice: An Introduction to Narrative Texts
Discussing Reproductive Justice Beyond Abortion and Contraception
Reflections on Teaching Reproductive Justice: An Introduction at a PWI in Texas
Appendix: List of Assigned Texts in Gender, Culture, and Representation
Literature:
Films/Television:
Non-Fiction:
Notes
References
Teaching Reproductive Justice: Reading Motherhood with Generations X, Y, and Z
Course Impetus, Design, and Transformations
Doubled Pedagogy: Un-Teaching and Re-Thinking Motherhood
I Love Lucy
African American Women’s Poetry
Beloved
After Birth
Onward
Appendix: Our Course Description
Notes
References
Mayday: Rethinking Reproductive Justice Protests Utilizing Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale
Introduction
Environmental Destruction
Acts of Genocide
Discussion
Conclusion
Notes
References
Not an Easy Read for “Normal” “Colored” People: Conversations on Shange’s and Rooney’s Literatures of Sexual Citizenship
Acts of Positioning: Introducing Ourselves and These “Works”
Reproductive Justice and Sex in Public: A Dual Perspective
The Work of Composing Coming of Age: On Audience, Invitation, and the Centering of Young Sexual Lives
The Work of Complicating Sexual Innocence
The Work of Public Art and Reproductive Justice
References
Index