The transition to nonparenthood: A critical feminist autoethnographic approach to understanding the abortion experience

Sells, Tamara G. Coon

doi:10.1080/08893675.2013.823314

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“…In the first interview, it was clear that, as with other instances described in the literature ( 89 ), our participants found the discovery of their pregnancy to be traumatic, and they portrayed it as an event that made everything uncertain. All reasons for electing to have an abortion involved the restoration of equilibrium, which, in nearly all cases, had been compromised before their respective pregnancies on both the socioeconomic and emotional/family levels.…”

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Conflicts Between Women's Religiosity and Sense of Free Will in the Context of Elective Abortion: A Qualitative Study in the Worst Period of Italy's COVID-19 Crisis

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This qualitative study considers the relationship between abortion, bereavement, and the effects of the COVID-19 lockdown nine women who had undergone an elective abortion, which is voluntarily termination of a pregnancy at the woman's request. These women were interviewed in three time points (1 month, 6 months, and 1 year after the event) to consider the possible evolution of their experience. The third phase was concurrent with the COVID-19 pandemic and particularly with Pope Francis's Easter declaration against abortion. All the interviews were conducted and analysed through qualitative research in psychology. Results showed that the abortion experience led to physical, relational, and psychological suffering, similar to perinatal grief. Participants were non-practising Catholics and religiosity did not help them to overcome their sorrow. Though religiosity is a possible resilience factor in other stressful conditions, in this case it is a factor that aggravated suffering. Finally, we discuss the difficulties experienced by Catholic women who choose to have an abortion and assert the necessity of psychological and spiritual interventions to support these women.

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Conflicts Between Women's Religiosity and Sense of Free Will in the Context of Elective Abortion: A Qualitative Study in the Worst Period of Italy's COVID-19 Crisis

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“…I realize it may not seem as a very logical choice, and I can't explain why switching the language made me feel safer, but it did. Like Tamara Coon (2013), I was afraid of how my colleagues would perceive my decision and how it would influence my future job opportunities. Although the feminist struggle in Mexico has come a long way, the stigma of abortion weighs heavy, and with the rise of conservative groups, it's still a very controversial subject in society.…”

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"I wish my mom was here." An Autoethnographic Account of Obstetric Violence in Mexican Healthcare Services

Díaz

2023

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This article offers an account of obstetric violence in abortion procedures within the Mexican health-care system. Through autoethnography, the author narrates and analyzes personal experience to identify the social and political implications, as well as the intersections of gender and class present in state-funded abortion care. The importance of the topic stems from the emergence and strengthening of the feminist struggle to conquer reproductive rights both in Mexico and in other countries throughout Latin America. As a result of the autoethnographic writing, the article discusses the tension where decriminalization of abortion—an important goal for the feminist movement—doesn’t ensure that women can undergo this procedure in conditions free of violence, since abortion stigma might still prevail.

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“…Scholars have engaged with autoethnographic inquiry to illuminate “the liminal space between life and being alive” within reproductive experiences (Mingé & Silverman, 2016), interrogate the neoliberal discourse of the “war on women” (Arellano, 2013), offer insight into institutions which frame abortion experiences (Coon Sells, 2013), and highlight the complexity of abortion storytelling within historical and cultural silences (Boon, 2017). Attending to the epistemic and aesthetic axes of autoethnographic inquiry, performative autoethnography offers critical/creative potentials for writing within the discursive in-between of dichotomized “Life” versus “Choice” discourses.…”

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To Be a (M)other: A Feminist Performative Autoethnography of Abortion

Swafford

2019

Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies

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This is an abortion story. A feminist story. A body story. An autoethnographic story. This is a story of learning how to story abortion in a culture unforgiving to abortion stories. A story of embodying a body deemed unworthy of embodiment. A story of enfleshment enmeshed amid silence and violence. Influenced by feminist embodied auto-epistemologies, this essay seeks to disrupt the functionality of the U.S. American abortion debate through a performative, somatic reclamation of my experience from the semantic constrictions of highly medicalized, politicized, and individualized hegemonic discourses. Engaging a feminist performative autoethnographic praxis informed by écriture feminine, I center my corporeal body as a site of epistemological value to speak back against the limiting narratives of/about abortion while illustrating the critical creative potentials of performative autoethnographic storytelling. This essay weaves theory, lyric prose, epistolary, and poetry to performatively reconstruct, reframe, and reclaim my abortion experience through an embodied autoethnographic framework, in hopes of illuminating possibilities for others to “[experiment] with how we might tell stories differently rather than simply telling different stories” (p. 16).

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The transition to nonparenthood: A critical feminist autoethnographic approach to understanding the abortion experience

Cited by 5 publications

References 29 publications

Conflicts Between Women's Religiosity and Sense of Free Will in the Context of Elective Abortion: A Qualitative Study in the Worst Period of Italy's COVID-19 Crisis

Conflicts Between Women's Religiosity and Sense of Free Will in the Context of Elective Abortion: A Qualitative Study in the Worst Period of Italy's COVID-19 Crisis

"I wish my mom was here." An Autoethnographic Account of Obstetric Violence in Mexican Healthcare Services

To Be a (M)other: A Feminist Performative Autoethnography of Abortion

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