Sandra Vizzavona

Interruption

L’avortement par celles qui l’ont vécu

Termination

Women’s Issues and Testimonies
February 3, 2021
Essay
112 pages
135 × 215 mm
16,50 €
9782234090118
978-2-2340-9011-8
																Sandra Vizzavona, Interruption
																Sandra Vizzavona, Interruption

“I’ve had two abortions and I’m living proof that an abortion can produce indifference or meltdown.
I was tired of prescriptive discussions about the reasons that should give women access to abortions and how they should or shouldn’t feel about it. I wanted to listen to some of them describing their experiences, refusing to let other people speak for them.
What interested me wasn’t the right to abortion but the right of those who had experienced it to speak out.
The law gives us the right to have abortions, society stops us from talking about it. Many women comply with this rule of silence because there are still feelings of embarrassment and guilt. Meanwhile, I’m convinced that the right to abortions will remain precarious if we don’t fully accept to use it as we see fit. And if we think we’re protecting it by keeping a low profile, that only gives some health professionals opportunities to mistreat us.
Hence this book, a mixture of testimonies and a personal undertaking that proved transformative.
It includes stories of terminations.
Some painful, some insignificant. All unique.
I hope that, to some small extent, it also sees the termination of silence, shame and anger.”

The author

Sandra Vizzavona is a lawyer. Termination is her first book. She mixes her personal story with the stories of the women who gave her theirs. Termination. Women’s issues/Testimonies was published by Stock Editions on February 3, 2021.

Strong points

A subject always in the news, a book to break the taboo.

A personal story that restores the experience of abortion as a woman.

Vibrant and embodied testimonies.

A book acclaimed by Annie Ernaux.

February 3, 2021
Essay
112 pages
135 × 215 mm
16,50 €
9782234090118
978-2-2340-9011-8