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Reproductive Acts : Sexual Politics in North American Fiction and Film.
Title:
Reproductive Acts : Sexual Politics in North American Fiction and Film.
Author:
Latimer, Heather.
ISBN:
9780773588882
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (212 pages)
Contents:
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.
Abstract:
A thought-provoking exploration of how fiction and film can provide ways of understanding reproductive politics.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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