The Palgrave Handbook of Reproductive Justice and Literature

1. Introduction.- 2. Recognizing Issues of Reproductive Justice in Nineteenth-Century US Literature.- 3. "Learn and Run": Reproductive Oppression and Resistance in the Works of Octavia E. Butler.- 4. Reading Reproductive Justice through Toni Morrison.- 5. Reproductive Justice in Ntozake Shange's "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf".- 6. Reproductive Rights and Reproductive Justice in Recent German-Language Fiction and Film.- 7. Cultivating Access, Cultivating Ignorance: A Survey of Herbal Abortifacients in American Fiction.- 8. Female Narratives of Abortion in Italian Literature From the 1970s to the Present.- 9. Re-Presenting the Un-Presentable: Annie Ernaux's L'évènement and Cristian Mungiu's 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and Two Days.- 10. Re-conceiving the World: Dystopia and Reproductive Justice.- 11. Reproductive and Disability Justice: Deaf Peoples' Right to be Born.- 12. Queer Argonauts for Reproductive Justice.- 13. On the One-Child Policy of China: Reading Ma Jian's Novel The Dark Road.- 14. Pregnancy Self-Help Literature as Disembodiment: An Issue of Reproductive Justice.- 15. Birthing Bodies Delivering Power in Anglophone Literature of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries.- 16. Writing and Birthing on Country: Examining Indigenous Australian Birth Stories from a Reproductive Justice Lens.- 17. Reproductive Experiences of Poor Mothers in India: An Analysis of YouTube Documentaries.- 18. Spain and Structural Infertility: Towards an Integrative Vision of Motherhood in the Novel Quién quiere ser madre by Silvia Nanclares.- 19. "Give me children, or else I die": Baby-hunger, Surrogacy, and Family-Making by Any Means Necessary.- 20. Surrogacy or Sale: Reflecting upon Reproductive Justice through The House for Hidden Mothers and A House of Happy Mothers.- 21. Claiming Motherhood: Reproductive Justice andSurrogacy in Chinese American Literature of the New

Beth Widmaier Capo is Edward Capps Professor of Humanities and Professor of English at Illinois College, USA. She earned her M.A. and Ph.D. from Pennsylvania State University, USA. She is the author of Textual Contraception: Birth Control and Modern American Fiction (2007) and co-edited Reproductive Rights Issues in Popular Media: International Perspectives (2017).

Laura Lazzari holds a Ph.D. from the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, and a Master of Studies from Oxford, UK. A scholar in Motherhood Studies, she works at the Sasso Corbaro Foundation for the Medical Humanities, Switzerland. She was the recipient of a 2015-2016 AAUW International Postdoctoral Fellowship at Georgetown University, USA, and has lectured for several universities in Switzerland and the United States.