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03443aam a22004218a 4500 001 42BF943845E811E3A4FDE4CADAD10320 003 SILO 005 20131105010132 008 130305s2013 quc b 001 0 eng 020 $a 0773541586 (pbk.) 020 $a 9780773541580 (pbk.) 020 $a 0773541578 (bound) 020 $a 9780773541573 (bound) 035 $a (OCoLC)818414784 040 $a NLC $b eng $c NLC $d YDXCP $d BTCTA $d ERASA $d UKMGB $d OCLCO $d CDX $d NKM $d OCLCO $d TWC $d MUU $d SILO 043 $a n-us--- $a n-us--- 050 4 $a PR9192.6.R49 $b L38 2013 055 0 $a PS8191 R47 $b L38 2013 082 04 $a C813/.5409353 $2 23 100 1 $a Latimer, Heather, $d 1978- 245 10 $a Reproductive acts : $b sexual politics in North American fiction and film / $c Heather Latimer. 260 $a MontreÌal : $b McGill-Queen's University Press, $c 2013. 263 $a 1306 300 $a 203 p. ; $c 22 cm. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (p. [177]-189) and index. 520 $a "Forty years after Roe v. Wade, it is evident that the ideologies of "choices" and "rights," which have publicly framed reproductive politics in North America since the landmark legal decision, have been inadequate in making sense of the topic's complexities. In Reproductive Acts, Heather Latimer investigates what contemporary fiction and film can tell us about the divisive nature of these politics, and demonstrates how fictional representations of reproduction allow for readings of reproductive politics that are critical of the terms of the debate itself. In an innovative argument about the power of fiction to engage and shape politics, Latimer analyzes works by authors such as Margaret Atwood, Kathy Acker, Toni Morrison, Larissa Lai, and director Alfonso CuaroÌn, among others, to claim that the unease surrounding reproduction, particularly the abortion debate, has increased both inside and outside the US over the last forty years. Fictional representation, Latimer argues, reveals reproductive politics to be deeply connected to cultural anxieties about gender, race, citizenship, and sexuality - anxieties that cannot be contained under the rules of individual rights or choices.Striking a balance between fictional, historical, and political analysis, Reproductive Acts makes a compelling argument for the vital role narrative plays in how we make sense of North American reproductive politics."--Publisher's website. 505 0 $a Privacy, patriarchy, and abortion: reproductive politics in The Handmaid's Tale, Blood and Guts in High School, and Don Quixote -- From politics to ethics: maternal abjection, subjectivity, and community in Instruments of Darkness and Paradise -- Fetal Cyborgs and monstrous clones: new reproductive technologies in Patchwork Girl and Salt Fish Girl -- The limits of citizenship: the fetus and the refugee in Children of Men. 530 $a Also issued in electronic format. 650 0 $a Canadian fiction $x History and criticism. $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a American fiction $x History and criticism. $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Abortion in literature. 650 0 $a Cloning in literature. 650 0 $a Reproductive rights $x Social aspects. 650 0 $a Reproductive technology $x Social aspects. 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20171222042829.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20160826074511.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=42BF943845E811E3A4FDE4CADAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search