From a Whisper to a Shout: Abortion Activism and Social Media
Elizabeth Kissling
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Product Details
- Format:
- Paperback / softback
- ISBN:
- 9781912248025
- Published:
- 19 Apr 2018
- Publisher:
- Repeater Books
- Dimensions:
- 300 pages - 197 x 130mm
- Availability:
- Available
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Abortion remains legal in the US, but access has been slowly eroded since prohibition was ruled unconstitutional nearly fifty years ago. Simultaneously abortion remains culturally stigmatised - it is kept secret and presumed shameful. But feminist activists are working to increase access and challenge this stigma. Numerous organisations and campaigns are challenging abortion stigma using the internet and social media and intersectional feminist sensibilities. From A Whisper to a Shout takes a closer look at four of these organisations - #ShoutYourAbortion, Lady Parts Justice, #WeTestify, and The Abortion Diary - and how they are integrating feminist tactics, social media, and political strategies to challenge abortion stigma and promote abortion access.
An examination of how reproductive rights activists are fusing old-school feminist tactics with new intersectional feminist sensibilities and social media tools to challenge abortion stigma and promote abortion access.
Elizabeth Kissling is Professor of Women's and Gender Studies and Communication at Eastern Washington University, and is the author of Capitalizing on the Curse: The Business of Menstruation (Lynn Rienner, 2006).