Interrogating pregnancy loss : feminist writings on abortion, miscarriage, and stillbirth / edited by Emily R.M. Lind and Angie Deveau.

Cover; Copyright; Title Page; Artist Statement; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; I. BREAKING THE SILENCE; 1. Communicating Miscarriage; 2. Timeline of a Maternal Breakdown; 3. Grief, Shame, and Miscarriage; II. PREGNANCY AS RELATIONAL; 4. Believing is Seeing is Believing; 5. The Ambiguous Space of Motherhood; 6. Full Circle; III. REFRAMING PREGNANCY LOSS; 7. Reframing the Devastation and Exclusion Associated with Pregnancy Loss; 8. failing; 9. Fatphobia, Pregnancy Loss, and My Hegemonic Imagination; 10. Missed Miscarriage; 11. Full-Term Baby Loss

12. How to Hear a Story; IV. INTERROGATING THE MEDICALIZED LOGICS OF PREGNANCY LOSS; 13. A Death Certificate, an Autopsy Report, a Pile of Insurance Claims; 14. Failing Fertility; 15. A Feminist Perspective on Selective Termination; V. MEMORIALIZING LOSS; 16. Enacting Acknowledgement, Meaning, and Acceptance; 17. Queering Reproductive Loss; About the Contributors

Whereas biomedical and feminist literature treat abortion, miscarriage, and stillbirth as differently conceptualized events, this collection explores the connections between these three categories. How have feminist debates and strategies around reproductive choice invigorated the cultural conversation about miscarriage and stillbirth? How can we imagine more nuanced engagements with the spectrum of experiences that are at stake when a pregnancy ends? And how can we effectively create a space where pregnant people contend with the ways that loss makes meaning for those who grieve and/or celebr.

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