Curtis, Abi ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6747-4356 (2024) Contemporary Women's Fiction: Speculative Fiction and reproductive rights. Foundation, 146 (52.3).

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Abstract

This piece explores how dystopian fictions which explore maternal experience and the reproductive body can help to illuminate the notion of ‘speculative fiction.’ Such fictions present the reproductive body in culture as a site of political power and demonstrate how, once a woman’s body is caught in the economies of reproduction, she is politically weakened. Dystopian texts are particularly effective and affecting in exploring this state I will term ‘bodily estrangement’.

Item Type:	Article
Status:	Published
Subjects:	P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) > PN0080 Criticism P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) > PN3311 Prose. Prose fiction
School/Department:	School of Humanities
URI:	https://ray.yorksj.ac.uk/id/eprint/8688

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