| Description |
1 online resource (194 p.) |
| Series |
Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature Series |
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Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature Series
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| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 Pregnancy as Protest: Speculative Fiction by WWI and Interwar Women Writers Beyond Brave New World -- 2 Blood and Pain and Ugliness: Abortion in the 1930s Writings of Naomi Mitchison -- 3 The Shattered Mould: Rosamond Lehmann and Abortion in 1930s Rhetoric and Fiction -- 4 A Bit of Himself: Male-Authored Abortion Narratives from Waste to Alfie -- 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 |
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6 Babies without Husbands: Unmarried Pregnancy in 1960s British Fiction -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Index |
| Summary |
This book challenges the association of abortion with the radical and pregnancy with the conventional by exploring the reproductive politics of British literature and film from 1907 when abortion was first used as a critical plot point in literature to 1967 when abortion law was liberalized in England, Scotland, and Wales |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781003856054 |
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1003856055 |
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