A Surgeon’s Miscarriage
Surgeon Carmen Fong reflects on her experience of miscarriage while working in a demanding and male-dominated profession
The Versatility of Abortion Pills
Morag Ramsey discusses the development of abortion pills in Sweden and the social attitudes around this technology
I Want to Zoom with the Baby in My Womb: Pregnancy During the Pandemic
In this personal essay Cleo Hanaway-Oakley reflects on being pregnant during the pandemic and the importance of ultrasound scan imagery.
Imagining Abortion: Foetal Personhood and Leni Zumas’ Red Clocks (2018)
In her paper, presented at the Representing Women’s Health conference’s “Speculative Fiction” panel, Jo Rodgers explores foetal personhood through feminist New Materialism. In her 2018 novel Red Clocks, Leni Zumas imagines a near-future USA
Climate Change and Pregnancy in Naomi Booth’s Sealed and Marian Womack’s Lost Objects
In his paper, presented at the Representing Women’s Health conference’s “Speculative Fiction” panel, Jonathan Thornton explores the interconnected anxieties of pregnancy and climate change. In a report in Global Health Action in 2013, ‘Climate
Risk, Childbirth and Women’s Choices in the Museum
Risk, Childbirth and Women’s Choices in the Museum Caitlin Stobie writes: From Call the Midwife and The Handmaid’s Tale to One Born Every Minute, pregnancy and childbirth – and related risks like miscarriage or
‘Addicted. Pregnant. Poor’ reviewed by Dr Kwanwook Kim
Addicted. Pregnant. Poor by Kelly Ray Knight (Duke University Press, 2015). This deeply engaging and long standing ethnography conducted from 2007 to 2011 fully discloses the sufferings of women living in daily rent hotels
‘Dead Babies and Seaside Towns’ reviewed by Dr Fiona Johnstone
‘Dead Babies and Seaside Towns’ by Alice Jolly (Unbound, 2015) Alice Jolly’s memoir Dead Babies and Seaside Towns is a timely attempt to address the double taboo of stillbirth and infertility, ‘to talk about