The Last Safe Abortion

Winant, Carmen. The Last Safe Abortion. [Place of publication not identified]: SPBH Editions, 2024.

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Abstract (English)

"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." -- Distributor's website.

Types:	Artists' publications > Artists' books
All Contributors:	Winant, Carmen (Author)
Dossier:	420 - WINANT, CARMEN
Collation:	172 unnumbered pages : colour illustrations ; 20 x 32 cm
ISBN:	9781739606756
Language of Publication:	English
Publishers:	[Place of publication not identified]: SPBH Editions
Artists:	Winant, Alice
Event Title:	Whitney Biennial 2024 : Even Better Than the Real Thing
Type:	Exhibition
Location:	Whitney Museum of American Art (New York, New York)
Dates:	20 March - 11 August 2024
Keywords:	ABORTION; ARCHIVAL PHOTOGRAPH; CARE; FEMINIST ART; ROLE OF ART
Copyright Statement:	Carmen Winant
Deposited by:	Contractuel Artexte
Date Deposited:	26 May 2026 19:56
Last Modified:	26 May 2026 19:56
URI:	http://e-artexte.ca/id/eprint/38079

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