Agnotologies of Abortion: Aspects of Ignorance Regarding Women's Reproductive Agency.

Jessie Marcotte

doi:10.26182/5ce7709de2b44

Agnotologies of Abortion: Aspects of Ignorance Regarding Women's Reproductive Agency.

Jessie Marcotte

School of Humanities

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Abstract

We in the contemporary West are thoroughgoing in the extent to which we deny knowledge of women's reproductive agency.
This thesis investigates the inevitable result of such denialism -- multiple levels of induced ignorance concerning women's use of early abortion as a form of fertility control. The relationship between elective abortion and induced ignorance is an overdetermined one, suggesting a heavy investment by both men and women in normative ideas concerning women's fertility.
As an agnotology, this thesis performs critical, feminist analyses of women's health, anthropological, archaeological and historical texts in order to reveal various layers of constructed ignorance regarding women as reproductive agents. Included, as well, are personal, reflexive narratives which reveal the interplay of my own experiences of early abortion and ignorance within a cultural context which denies the significance of women's reproductive agency throughout history and prehistory.

Original language	English
Qualification	Masters
Awarding Institution	The University of Western Australia
Thesis sponsors	Australian Government Research Training Program
Award date	18 Jan 2019
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.26182/5ce7709de2b44
Publication status	Unpublished - 2019

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