{"product_id":"ordinary-abortion-mary-thompson-9780814259870","title":"Ordinary Abortion: Reproductive Choice in Twenty-First-Century Women's Writing","description":"\u003cb\u003eConsiders the undramatic prevalence of abortion in the United States and how it has shaped twenty-first-century women's writing.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The Supreme Court's \u003ci\u003eDobbs v. Jackson\u003c\/i\u003e (2022) decision, which erased the constitutional right to abortion, abruptly redramatized access in the United States. Yet twenty-first-century literature written before \u003ci\u003eDobbs\u003c\/i\u003e reflects a landscape in which abortion appears as an undramatic, routine part of women's lives. In \u003ci\u003eOrdinary Abortion\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e, \u003c\/i\u003e Mary Thompson argues that many contemporary women writers depict abortion as a commonplace decision intertwined with health, education, career, sexuality, relationships, family-making, and motherhood. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Drawing on American poetry, fiction, nonfiction, memoir, and dystopian writing, \u003ci\u003eOrdinary Abortion\u003c\/i\u003e examines how ideas about abortion circulate through literature and how literary forms, in turn, shape readers' understandings of reproduction and politics. Thompson traces new plots, characters, narrative strategies, and genres emerging around birth control, unplanned pregnancy, termination, and family formation. These works reveal renewed thematic attention to abortion's relationship with motherhood and mother-loss, neoliberal pressures, stratified reproduction, masculinity, violence, care work, and disability. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Ultimately, \u003ci\u003eOrdinary Abortion\u003c\/i\u003e shows that abortion literature extends far beyond stories centered on crisis or choice. Instead, twenty-first-century women's writing reveals a quiet, pervasive truth: Abortion has long been woven into everyday American life, normalized in ways that public discourse has often failed to acknowledge.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mary Thompson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0814259871\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780814259870\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Ohio State University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/21\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 190\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.58lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.44d","brand":"Mary Thompson","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49001128296703,"sku":"9780814259870","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/ordinary-abortion-mary-thompson-9780814259870","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}