The Last Safe Abortion

The Last Safe Abortion

Carmen Winant • SPBH Editions

This edition of The Last Safe Abortion

ISBN-10: 1739606752 · ISBN-13: 978‑1739606756 · 2024 · 1st edition

Dimensions: 22.0 × 30.5 cm

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Winner of THE AUTHOR BOOK AWARD at the Rencontres d'Arles Book Awards, 2024 Focusing on the near-fifty-year period in which abortion was legal in the United States (1973–2022), The Last Safe Abortion recognises the care, advocacy, and community-building of abortion workers. Artist Carmen Winant draws from over a dozen personal, organisational, and institutional archives from across the Midwest, in Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska, Illinois, Kentucky, North Dakota, and Ohio. The photographs themselves are surprisingly regular: women answer the phone, sterilize medical equipment, throw staff birthday parties, offer workshops, and schedule appointments. In centring the tender, quotidian, and routine acts that inform this healthcare work, Winant works to counter the ways anti-choice activists have weaponised photography by proposing a visuality that attends to abortion care. The Last Safe Abortion presents a selection of this vast collection of photographs, accompanied by a text by Winant. This publication coincides with the complementary new edition of My Birth . Purchase My Birth here .

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• Softcover · First Edition
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