"Wife. Mother. Criminal(?)": Representations of Abortion in Mike Leigh's Vera Drake (2004)
Set in the early 1950s in a working-class area in London, Mike Leigh’s Vera Drake (2004) revolves around the life of the protagonist Vera and the discovery of her best-kept secret: her role as a backstreet abortionist. This article examines how the issue of abortion is approached in the film and ho...
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| Language: | English |
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Universidad de Zaragoza
2009-12-01
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| Series: | Miscelánea: A Journal of English and American Studies |
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| Online Access: | https://papiro.unizar.es/ojs/index.php/misc/article/view/9663 |