Resistant Reproductions: Pregnancy and Abortion in British Literature and Film

This book challenges the association of abortion with the radical and pregnancy with the conventional by exploring the reproductive politics of British literature and film from 1907 when abortion was first used as a critical plot point in literature to 1967 when abortion law was liberalized in England, Scotland, and Wales.

Fran Bigman is an independent academic who lives in New York City. She received her PhD and MPhil in English from the University of Cambridge and her BA in History from Brown University.