Keeping Women in the Dark”
Science Fiction, Fictional Science, and the Legacy of Maternal Misrepresentations
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11059903 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sara Hosey (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 48 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 462-482 |
| Publication date | 2021-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Science Fiction Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0091-7729 • E-ISSN: 2327-6207 |
| Publisher | University of California Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/sfs.2021.0062 |
| OpenAlex | W4205496205 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
In order to demonstrate the extent to which discussions of women's bodies and reproductive lives are often untethered from biological realities or the imperative to engage meaningfully with women's lived experiences, this article analyzes the depictions of abortion in the popular television series V: The Final Battle and in the pro-life “documentary” The Silent Scream, texts that debuted within months of each other in 1984. Placing them alongside each other reveals how these depictions and the mainstream rhetoric surrounding them are imbricated, how they are both heir to and purveyors of misinformation about reproductive technologies that promise access to the womb. While The Silent Scream presents visual technologies as providing authentic representations (at the same time as the filmmakers distort those representations), the characters in V are legitimately skeptical of these same technologies, articulating an awareness of their potential for manipulation. And yet the ideologies of these texts overlap in that both ultimately position fetuses as more intentional and agentic than their mothers
Abortion · Aesthetics · Art · Battle · Epistemology · Ideology · Mainstream · Media studies · Misinformation · Political science · Politics · Pregnancy · Rhetoric · Skepticism · Sociology · Gender Studies · History · Law · Philosophy · Reproductive Health and Technologies · Science Education and Perceptions · Utopian, Dystopian, and Speculative Fiction
| Citations per year | 0.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2022 - 2024 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |