More than stigma: Interrogating counter narratives of abortion
More than stigma: Interrogating counter narratives of abortion
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DOI：
10.1177/1363460718782966
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发表时间：
2019-10-01
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1.5
通讯作者：
Millar, Erica
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作者：
Baird, Barbara;Millar, Erica
大量女权主义学术研究确定并研究了代表堕胎的方式，重点关注诸如耻辱和自主胎儿主体的产生等主题。近年来，关于堕胎的文化表征不断增多，这些表征与对堕胎的描述不相符，甚至明确提及和斥责、污名化和以胎儿为中心的描述。本文重点关注澳大利亚的背景和两组在线网站——澳大利亚堕胎诊所的网站和广泛传播的支持堕胎的女权主义评论——对新的、“毫无歉意”的堕胎代表方式进行了批判性的解读。我们认为它们增加了堕胎的文化合法性，因此非常重要，但由于它们对新自由主义自主主体的具体化而具有局限性。尽管如此，我们敦促女权主义学者更多地关注那些认为堕胎没有问题并且对女性有益的言论。关于堕胎的学术研究具有表演效果，我们希望识别和培育堕胎的反叙事是使堕胎正常化的一种手段。
A large body of feminist scholarship identifies and examines modes of representing abortion, focusing on themes such as stigma and the production of an autonomous foetal subject. In recent years, there has been a proliferation of cultural representations of abortion that do not conform with, and even explicitly reference and rebuke, stigmatising and foetocentric depictions of abortion. Focusing on the Australian context and two sets of online sites-the websites of Australian abortion clinics and widely circulated pro-choice, feminist commentary on abortion-this article provides a critical reading of new, 'unapologetic' modes of representing abortion. We argue that they increase the cultural legitimacy of abortion and are therefore incredibly important, but have limitations because of their reification of the neoliberal autonomous subject. Nevertheless, we urge feminist scholars to pay more attention to discourses that presume abortion is unproblematic and beneficial to women. Scholarship on abortion has performative effects, and we hope that identifying and nurturing counter narratives of abortion is one means by which abortion can be normalised.