Call for Contributors
Canadian
Abortion Experience: Voices on Choice(s)
Canadian
Abortion Experience: Voices on Choice(s) is an edited collection that
explores the abortion-related experiences of Canadian women (and men), activists,
practitioners, and academics. At a time when women’s access to safe and legal
abortion is facing renewed scrutiny under a majority Conservative government, this
timely collection explores the issue from a variety of perspectives.
Divided into two parts, Canadian Abortion Experience will include narratives relaying the
abortion experiences of patients, practitioners, activists, and others whose
lives have been touched by abortion as well as think pieces and dialogues on a
variety of issues pertaining to the pro-choice movement in Canada.
Narratives
should share remembrances, thoughts, feelings, motivations, and experiences as
they pertain to abortion either on a personal or professional level.
Topics for
think pieces may include (but are not limited to):
▪What does (or doesn't) “choice” mean to you?
▪Linguistic strategies (e.g. the use of “abortion
rights” vs. “reproductive rights”; the use of “anti-choice” vs. “anti-abortion”;
the use of “choice”)
▪Mobilizing the pro-choice majority (abortion and
the “everywoman”)
▪Refocusing the abortion debate on the pregnant
woman instead of the fetus
▪Reflections on the place/role of Morgentaler in
pro-choice history/narrative
▪Future strategies for pro-choice activism
▪Continuities, changes, and challenges between the
second and third waves of pro-choice feminist activism in Canada
▪Inclusions and exclusions in the pro-choice movement
(e.g. class, race, ethnicity, regionalism)
▪The relationship between academic and frontline
activism
▪Abortion and religion
▪Abortion and sexuality
▪Abortion and technology
▪Unequal access to abortion services
▪Reproductive justice
▪Unequal access to abortion services
▪Reproductive justice
▪The medicalization of abortion
Think pieces should be short essays between 500
and 2500 words. Narratives can be of variable length up to approximately 2,000
words. All material should be original, unpublished elsewhere.
Submissions are due June 30, 2012.
For further information or to submit a piece,
please contact Shannon Stettner, editor, via cdnabex@gmail.com.