Price: $39.95
Page Count: 212
Publication Date: December 2021
ISBN: 978-1-77258-355-7
*Abortion and Mothering *brings into focus what is often neglected in
discussions of abortion: That abortion is just one experience in the rich
complexity of women's reproductive lives. The essays and art contained in
this collection help us better understand this richness, and how abortion
experiences inform mothering and mothering informs abortion experiences. It
is this kind of attention that can help move us beyond black and white
debates into more nuanced understandings in our work for reproductive
rights.
- Jane Kirby, author of *Fired Up about Reproductive Rights*
Cover Art: The Reproduction Maze
Winnie T. Frick
Dedications
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Heather Jackson & Jessica Shaw
Mi Cuerpo, Mi Decisión (pennant 1)
Shaun Slifer & Rebecca Susman
Abortion: Mothering, Un-Mothering and the Liminal Space in Between
Miriam Rose Brooker
Protection (embroidery 1)
Victoria L Poole
Abortion Providers as Mothers, With Mothers
Jessica Shaw
Trust Women (pennant 2)
Shaun Slifer & Rebecca Susman
Goddess Recovers a Mistake
Alison Ojanen-Goldsmith
Our Bodies, Our Rights
Meredith Stern
Relief or Regret: The Emotional Implications of Abortion
Meredith Navarro-McCullar
Never Again (pennant 3)
Shaun Slifer & Rebecca Susman
Abortive Subjectivities
Laura Major
Mothering, Abortion, and the State: A Modern Orientation towards Values of Care
Christina Quinlan
Teaching daughters (and sons) that abortion is good
Heather Jackson
I Want to Get My Education Straight: The Impact of Pregnancy Decision Making of Contemporary Society and Cultural Expectations of Teenager
Sarah Bekaert
Light at the end (embroidery 2)
Victoria L Poole
Bad Mothers and Staunch Feminists: Genetic Abortions in Mommy Memoirs by Waldman and Beck
Mary Thompson
Teaching Students Abortion Rights Leads to More Rights For Them
Crystal Michels
the story of how i got pregnant
Heather Jackson
Contributor Notes
Heather Jackson, a former teen mom, is now a 30-something single mom of a teen. Currently, she works as a birth doula and an early childhood counselor in Rhode Island. She is co-editor of Feminist Parenting and of Motherhood and Social Exclusion, and her writing has been published by many different websites, books, and zines. She loves bike riding, going to the beach, playing guitar, going to shows, making zines (etsy shop: ramonegirl), and writing.
Jessica Shaw is a professor of social work at the University of Calgary (Alberta, Canada) a full-spectrum doula, and a director of Women Help Women (womenhelp.org) – an international feminist organization that supports abortion access in places where it is illegal or highly restricted. Jessica became a mother in 2021 and completed final edits of this book while babywearing her newborn.
