• DOI:10.1353/ff.2015.0023
Corpus ID: 145147474

The Politics of Narrative, Narrative as Politic: Rethinking Reproductive Justice Frameworks through the South Dakota Abortion Story

@article{Thomsen2015ThePO,
  title={The Politics of Narrative, Narrative as Politic: Rethinking Reproductive Justice Frameworks through the South Dakota Abortion Story},
  author={C. Thomsen},
  journal={Feminist Formations},
  year={2015},
  volume={27},
  pages={1 - 26}
}

C. Thomsen

Published 2015

Sociology

Feminist Formations

The article examines the 2006 struggle over abortion rights in South Dakota in order to consider the circulation of narratives on two distinct, but intersecting scales: first, the use of women’s individual narratives as a rights-gaining strategy; and second, the narratives that reproductive justice scholars and activists have constructed about these movements. The article argues that the case of the South Dakota abortion wars encourages a rethinking of feminist assumptions regarding the… CONTINUE READING

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