Reproductive Justice and Its Discontents: Recent Representations in American Popular Culture

An Introduction

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.13135/1592-4467/12291

Keywords:

Reproductive Justice, Bodily Autonomy, US Pop Culture, Intersectionality, Abortion

Abstract

Introduction to the Special Section Reproductive Justice and Its Discontents: Recent Representations in American Popular Culture.

Author Biographies

Cristina Di Maio, University of Torino

Cristina Di Maio is Junior Assistant Professor (RTDa) in American Literature at the University of Turin. She is the author of contributions on contemporary American women writers, Italian American and Italian Diasporic Studies, Intersectionality, coming of age and pop culture; in 2021 she published her first book on games and play in Toni Cade Bambara, Rita Ciresi e Grace Paley’s short fiction. With Fulvia Sarnelli and Daniele Giovannone, she co-edited What’s Popping? La Storia degli Stati Uniti nella cultura popolare del nuovo millennio (Le Balene, 2022).

Fulvia Sarnelli, University of Naples “L’Orientale”

Fulvia Sarnelli is Associate Professor of American Literature and Culture at the University of Naples “L’Orientale.” Her research focuses on twentieth- and twenty-first-century US literature, with particular attention to Asian American writing, the cultural production of/on Pacific Indigenous communities, feminist theory and reproductive justice. She is the author of Panda in the Promised Land (La Scuola di Pitagora, 2019), and her work explores intersectional subjectivities, governmentality, and US pop culture within transnational frameworks.

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2025-09-10

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Vol. 36 (2025): Reproductive Justice and Its Discontents: Recent Representations in American Popular Culture

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Special Section

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