...-this autothanatography-through a death that is and is not properly my own. I had an abortion. This statement mimics "I had a child," calling to memory a future I chose not to live. An abortion is a decision, a division, a split. It is the possibility of doing life and death at the same time. It means that a part of me...

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..., the bombing of another abortion clinic, the debate on sex education, the rise in teenage pregnancies. Sexual paraphernalia and technology are enjoying wider circulation and distribution. Erotica is marketed to women in their homes like Tupperware, or through cable channels and video cassettes. Such marketing...

.... The Abortion Holocaust: Today's Final Solution . Saint Louis: Landmark, 1983 . Butler, Judith. “Imitation and Gender Insubordination.” Inside/Out: Lesbian Theories, Gay Theories . New York:Routledge, 1991 . 13 -31. ____. Antigone's Claim: Kinship between Life and Death . New York: Columbia UP, 2000...

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... of publications beginning with Le Torchon brule [The Dishcloth Burns] in 1970, and especially of course, the struggle for abortion rights. But just a word or two on that subject. Didn't a media strategy, the kind that you don't like, ultimately payoff in the famous "Manifeste des 3437 AF: I recognize that, and I...

... to antidepressants to vaccines to “medications derived from pigs” ( Ginsburg 33–35 ). Legal observers warned that the right-wing victory presaged a wider assault on lgbt equality, voting rights, and abortion, and they identified in “religious freedom” the front for this agenda. They framed “religion” as the Trojan...

... a substitute for the penis and more a substitute for the question of presence or absence. The context of her discussion concerning the originary vocative is the essay “Apostrophe, Animation, and Abortion,” in which she asks, “Can the very essence of a political issue—an issue, like say abortion—hinge...

... such a possibility; at any rate he didn’t situate it at the end of the process he described. I imagine that my life—or better yet, its aborting, the open wound that is my life—constitutes all by itself...

... racial, was becoming evident. The other issue at stake in the nomination, along with affirmative action, was abortion. Indeed, the nomination of a single judge seemed to be enough to overturn the slender majority of Supreme Court...

... and ask: what would it take to have enormous faith in such a statement? What Bersani and Dutoit are forcing us toward is, paradoxically, no discernible “place” at all; rather, they suggest a kind of antechamber of thinking where thoughts spectrally arise and are aborted. We are seemingly subject...

... ): 89 -93. Johnson, Barbara. “Anthropomorphism in Lyric and Law.” Material Events: Paul de Man and the Afterlife of Theory . Ed. Tom Cohen, Barbara Cohen, J. Hillis Miller, and Andzej Warminski. Minneapolis: u of Minnesota p, 2001 . 205 -25. ____. “Apostrophe, Animation, and Abortion.” World...

..., ma: mit p, 1989 . Johnson, Barbara. “Apostrophe, Animation, and Abortion.” Diacritics 16.1 ( 1986 ): 28 -47. ____. “Bringing Out D. A. Miller.” Narrative 10.1 ( 2002 ): 3 -8. Johnson, Charles. “Exchange Value.” The Sorcerer's Apprentice: Tales and Conjurations . 1986. New York...

... Terricka for getting pregnant and decides to take her to an abortion clinic in Jackson, Mississippi, where Terricka, much to her dismay, can “consider her options.” Mother and daughter get into an argument, during which Terricka explicitly asks Mercedes whether she believes Terricka should keep the child...

... of analytic objects. And in its reckoning with the postwar problematic of an aborted progressive historiography and thwarted emancipatory impulse, Critical Theory explored the containment, vexation, and deformation of the very desire...