Better Mothers, Good Daughters, and Blessed Women: Multiple Femininities and Intersectionality in Abortion Narratives.

The article takes up abortion as a reproductive justice issue caught in a struggle over the meanings of "hegemonic femininity. It argues abortion is central to dominant discourses and recentralizes privileged patriarchal femininity. It discusses how women seeking abortion navigate structural ideolog...

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Published in:Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies Vol. 40; no. 1; pp. 63 - 95
Main Author: Thakkilapati, Sri Devi
Format: Article
Published: University of Nebraska Press 2019
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Summary:The article takes up abortion as a reproductive justice issue caught in a struggle over the meanings of "hegemonic femininity. It argues abortion is central to dominant discourses and recentralizes privileged patriarchal femininity. It discusses how women seeking abortion navigate structural ideologies to form differing self-constructions, and the ethnographic research conducted at a non- profit abortion clinic in Ohio is powerful.