Price: $34.95
Page Count: 252
Publication Date: November 2017
ISBN: 978-1-77258-023-5
“Interrogating Pregnancy Loss addresses with poignancy and nuance topics that are
too often discussed myopically or ignored completely by feminist academics. By
delving into the socially and emotionally complex dimensions of abortion,
miscarriage, and stillbirth, this volume provides a truly groundbreaking
contribution to feminist motherhood scholarship.”
—VANESSA REIMER, editor of Angels on Earth: Mothering, Religion, and Spirituality,
and
blogger at Loss Mama
“Interrogating Pregnancy Loss challenges its readers to think about pregnancy as a
state of being—as an embodied social phenomenon—as experiencing rather than
merely expecting. As such, through scholarly literature as well as through narrative,
we understand pregnancy loss more than an object to be studied. This edited text is
written in such a way as to be useful to theorists, scholars doing empirical research,
as well as practitioners, and lay audiences.”
—DEBORAH DAVIDSON, Associate Professor, York University
Introduction
Toward a Feminist Epistemology of Loss
Emily R.M. Lind
I. BREAKING THE SILENCE
Chapter One
Communicating Miscarriage:
Coping with Loss, Uncertainty, and Self-Imposed Stigma
Masha Sukovic and Margie Serrato
Chapter Two
Timeline of a Maternal Breakdown:
A Feminist Mother’s Blog Post About Her
Abortion Experience
Angie Deveau
Chapter Three
Grief, Shame, and Miscarriage
Nancy Gerber
II. PREGNANCY AS RELATIONAL
Chapter Four
Believing Is Seeing Is Believing:
Elective Abortion and Visual Closure
Mary Thompson
Chapter Five
The Ambiguous Space of Motherhood:
The Experience of Stillbirth
Maya E. Bhave
Chapter Six
Full Circle:
Exploring the Maternal Ambivalence of a
Motherless Daughter
Natalie Morning
III. REFRAMING PREGNANCY LOSS
Chapter Seven
Reframing the Devastation and Exclusion Associated
with Pregnancy Loss:
A Normal and Growth-Enhancing Component of the
Physiological Female Continuum
Keren Epstein-Gilboa
Chapter Eight
failing
j wallace skelton
Chapter Nine
Fatphobia, Pregnancy Loss, and My Hegemonic Imagination:
A Story of Two Abortions
Emily R.M. Lind
Chapter Ten
Missed Miscarriage
Robin Silbergleid
Chapter Eleven
Full-Term Baby Loss: A How-to Guide for Mothers
Rachel O’Donnell
Chapter Twelve
How to Hear a Story: Reflections on the
Anniversary of My Rape
Rhobi Jacobs
IV. INTERROGATING THE MEDICALIZED LOGICS OF
PREGNANCY LOSS
Chapter Thirteen
A Death Certificate, an Autopsy Report,
a Pile of Insurance Claims
Elizabeth Heineman
Chapter Fourteen
Failing Infertility: A Case to Queer the Rhetoric of Infertility
Maria Novotny
Chapter Fifteen
A Feminist Perspective on Selective Termination
Brittany Irvine
V. MEMORIALIZING LOSS
Chapter Sixteen
Enacting Acknowledgment, Meaning, and Acceptance:
Personal Ceremony and Ritual as Helpful Ways to Engage
with Feelings of Loss After Abortion
Miriam Rose Brooker
Chapter Seventeen
Queering Reproductive Loss:
Exploring Grief and Memorialization
Christa Craven and Elizabeth Peel
About the Contributors
Emily R.M. Lind is a doctoral candidate at Carleton University’s Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature, Art, and Culture. Her research examines the intersections between identity, materiality, power, and knowledge production in interdisciplinary contexts. She is currently writing her dissertation on settler colonialism, Canadian art, and early twentieth-century Toronto.
Angie Deveau is a graduate of York University’s Women’s Studies M.A. Program and has been working for the Motherhood Initiative for Research and Community Involvement for nearly five years. Previously, she provided research assistance for York University’s Gender & Work Database, York University’s ‘Women’s Human Rights, Macroeconomics and Policy Choices’ project and the ‘Adolescent Health and Wellbeing Study’ at UNB. In addition to her background in research, Angie has worked as a Case Management Assistant for the Province of Nova Scotia’s Department of Community Services (Social Assistance Division), and as the Community Development Coordinator for the Victorian Order of Nurses/Help the Aged project in Fredericton, New Brunswick. She is currently in the planning stages of co-editing a collection on Mothering and Yoga, Meditation, and Mindfulness.
