Clair Wills: Quickening, or How to Plot an Abortion

Created
Fri, 03/03/2023 - 00:00
Updated
Fri, 03/03/2023 - 00:00
What might it mean​ for the way we think about abortion if we take seriously the problem of what fictional narrative – novels and stories and films – says about it, or doesn’t say, what it makes impossible to say? Can we tell stories about abortion that don’t get snagged on gendered assumptions about human nature and moral feeling, that think in different psychological terms, or not in psychological terms at all?