Quickening, or How to Plot an Abortion
Clair Wills: The Abortion Plot, 16 March 2023
“... a choice that can be explained in narrative terms. I’m reminded of a phrase of Sartre’s that Judith Butler uses when describing Simone de Beauvoir’s writing about becoming a woman: ‘We are a choice, and for us, to be is to choose ourselves.’ This is choice as a form of knowledge, an understanding of oneself, rather than deliberation.Ernaux ends up ... ”