Inclusive Aims

Rhetoric’s Role in Reproductive Justice

Heather Brook Adams, Nancy Myers

• Publisher: Parlor Press, LLC
• Year: 2024
• Print ISBN:
  9781643174242
• Edition: 0
• eBook ISBN:
  9781643174259
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Feminism & Feminist Theory
• Index: Social Sciences

Inclusive Aims: Rhetoric's Role in Reproductive Justice engages with fraught reproductive realities—past, present, and future—and offers analysis and advice for coalitional alliance and strategy building. For those who legitimately value the needs, desires, and safety of reproducing people, recent years have demonstrated that in the United States especially, reproductive matters represent not only contestation but extreme precarity. Considering such pressing exigencies, those pursuing just reproductive politics can benefit from thinking about such events and actions rhetorically, and not in isolation but as interconnected and connected to larger webs of action. The collection features a range of activist-scholars and scholar-activists, each of whom shares and/or interrogates stories of reproductive in/justice. Its topics range from discourse practices related to telehealth, birthing doula care, and negligence due to systemic racism and transphobia to representations of vasectomy, strategies for political solidarity, and considerations for navigating the challenges of activist interventions. The project mindfully infuses insights from thought-traditions of reproductive justice activists and scholars outside of rhetoric. Through its varied chapters, the collection demonstrates how rhetorics of reproductive politics function as a means by which various injustices are illuminated and addressed. Contributors include Zachary Beare, Fabiola Carrión, Hannah Dudley-Shotwell, Natalie Fixmer-Oraiz, Meta Henty, Adele N. Nichols, Sheri Rysdam, Shui-yin Sharon Yam, Michelle C. Smith, Melissa Stone, Jill Swiencicki, Jenna Vinson, and James D. Warwood.

Table of contents

• Front cover
• Series page
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Contents
• Preface
• Introduction: Rhetorical Movement and the Pursuit of Reproductive Justice
• Rhetorics of Alliance
• 1 Liberation: The Souths’ Rhetorical Framework for Reproductive Justice
• 2 Self-Help Clinics, Transphobia, and Reproductive Justice
• 3 Inclusive Models of Reproductive Justice: Creating Space for Masculine-of-Center Pregnant and Birthing People
• 4 #NoTeenShame: A Case Study in Rhetorical Activism, Hope, and Limitations
• 5 Brokering Reproductive Justice: Solidarity Rhetoric in Senator Wendy Davis’s Texas Filibuster
• Rhetorics of Practice
• 6 Advancing Black Women’s Maternal Health Using Black Rhetorical Action: Addressing Systemic Racialized Maternal Abuse
• 7 The Rhetorical History of Choice: Birth Control, Eugenics, and Utopia
• 8 Choice, Shame, and the Neoliberal Affective Politics of Nurx’s App-Based Reproductive and Sexual Healthcare
• 9 Rhetorical Visions of Vasectomy: How Television and Film Representations Influence Reproductive Lives
• 10 Doula-Rhetors for Childbirth: Strategic Leading Questions and Reproductive Justice
• Afterword—Scaling Up and Out: Co-Creating a Future for Reproductive Justice
• Contributors
• Index
• About the Editors
• Back cover