Reproduction, Politics, and John Irving’s The Cider House Rules: Women’s Rights or “Fetal Rights”?
While hotly debated in political contexts, abortion has seldom figured in explicit terms in either literature or film in the United States. An exception is John Irving’s 1985 novel The Cider House Rules, which treats abortion insistently and explicitly. Although soon thirty years old, The Cider Hous...
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| Language: | English |
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Linköping University Electronic Press
2013-06-01
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| Series: | Culture Unbound: Journal of Current Cultural Research |
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.3384/cu.2000.1525.135251 |