Abortion as a feminist pedagogy of grief in Marianne Apostolides’s Deep Salt Water

Author(s): Hurst, R. A. J.
Date: 2020
Publication: Feminist Studies
Citation: Hurst, R. A. J. (2020). Abortion as a feminist pedagogy of grief in Marianne Apostolides’s Deep Salt Water. Feminist Studies, 46(1), 43–73. https://doi.org/10.1353/fem.2020.0011
Section on webpage: Reproductive Rights and Justice Literature
Tenets: Considering alternative histories and narratives. Examining how gender, intersecting with other social categories, structures our lives, learning, and knowledge production, access to resources and information. Honoring diversity and lived experiences through intersectional approaches.
Annotation: (Excerpt) Deep Salt Water is a poetic textual and visual memoir about abortion and loss set against the backdrop of ecological catastrophe in the world’s oceans. It is the result of an artistic exchange between artist Catherine Mellinger and writer Marianne Apostolides. Apostolides’s memoir emerges during a complex and often fraught historical moment for abortion access in Canada, where she and Mellinger live, as well as the United States. Concerned about drawing attention to the reality that some “women feel guilt and grief at what is a rather violent surgical procedure (as most surgical procedures are),” Apostolides worried her work could be manipulated by anti-abortion activists and politicians to support the position that abortion rights should be revoked or severely curtailed.

 

How to ‘Do’ Feminist Theory through Digital Video: Embodying Praxis in the Undergraduate Feminist Theory Classroom

Author(s): Hurst, R.
Date: 2014
Publication: Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology
Citation: Hurst, R. (2014). How to ‘Do’ Feminist Theory through Digital Video: Embodying Praxis in the Undergraduate Feminist Theory Classroom. Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology, 5. doi:10.7264/N3M61HJC.
Section on webpage: Online and Video Presentations
Tenets: Promoting reflexivity. Using technology intentionally to build communities and enhance learning.
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