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Area of Science:

  • Feminist Studies
  • Sociology of Reproduction
  • Public Health Discourse

Background:

  • Overview of abortion discourse, politics, and provision in the Anglophone West.
  • Contextualizes developments in light of the COVID-19 pandemic.
  • Identifies limitations in current abortion scholarship, often focusing on negative aspects.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To survey three promising directions for feminist abortion scholarship.
  • To highlight scholarship that addresses intersectional inequalities in reproductive justice.
  • To explore scholarship examining the embodied experience of abortion and its social meaning.

Main Methods:

  • Literature review and synthesis of existing feminist scholarship on abortion.
  • Analysis of discourse, politics, and provision of abortion.
  • Identification of emerging theoretical frameworks in abortion studies.

Main Results:

  • Identifies Reproductive Justice as a key framework, emphasizing intersectional inequalities.
  • Highlights scholarship focusing on the particularity of the aborting body and its lived experience.
  • Proposes amplifying the understanding of abortion as a social good, countering negative associations.

Conclusions:

  • Feminist abortion scholarship can be enriched by focusing on reproductive justice, embodiment, and social good.
  • There is a need to move beyond critique to amplify positive meanings and experiences of abortion.
  • Introduces a special section of "Women's Studies International Forum" on 'Abortion at the edges'.