To Be a (M)other
A Feminist Performative Autoethnography of Abortion
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2408987 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Shelby Swafford (0000-0002-8397-4868) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 95-103 |
| Publication date | 2020-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Culture Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1532-7086 • E-ISSN: 1552-356X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1532708619878743 |
| OpenAlex | W2976419901 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 21 |
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
Aesthetics · Art · Autoethnography · Cognitive reframing · Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Feminism · Literature · Narrative · Performative utterance · Performativity · Praxis · Silence · Sociology · Storytelling · Feminist Theory and Gender Studies · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Psychology · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics · Gender Studies · Philosophy
Why Stories Matter
Women’s Mental Health and Well-being 5 Years After Receiving or Being Denied an Abortion
The Promise of Happiness
Performing theory/embodied writing
Autoethnography's Family Values
Toward a pleasure‐centered economy
Nursing mother and articulating absence
Staging the self
That was my occupation
Conceptualising abortion stigma
God's Will
Word Wielding Womb
The (Im)Possibilities of Writing the Self-Writing
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,8 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2023 (3) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |