Abortion in Popular Culture : A Call to Action - Brenda Boudreau

Abortion in Popular Culture

A Call to Action

By: Brenda Boudreau (Editor, Contribution by), Kelli Maloy (Editor), Patrick S. Allen (Contribution by), Cordelia Freeman (Contribution by)

Hardcover | 30 March 2023

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Abortion in Popular Culture: A Call to Action brings together scholars who examine depictions of abortion in film, television, literature, and social media. By examining texts ranging from medical dramas of the 1960s and recent films such as Never Rarely Sometimes Always and Unpregnant to dystopian novels and social-media campaigns, the essays analyze a range of narrative styles, rhetorical strategies, and cinematic techniques, all of which shape cultural attitudes toward abortion. They also analyze cultural shifts, including the willingness or reluctance of networks and cable channels to acknowledge medication abortion and the role that abortion plays in family planning. As a whole, however, the essays argue that popular culture can play a significant role in destigmatizing abortion by including a wider range of narratives and doing so with nuance and empathy. With reproductive rights under attack in the United States, each essay is a call to action for writers, producers, directors, showrunners, authors, and musicians to use their platforms to tell more positive and accurate stories about abortion.

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In Abortion in Popular Culture: A Call to Action, the researchers pair pop culture with rigorous sociological analysis to build a thoughtful primer for avid television watchers or film buffs desiring to think more deeply about the on-screen abortion stories they consume. This bookdelightfully brings a critical eye to the media we love to ensure we're ready for what's next in this post-Roe world, on-screen and off.

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