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Gender: Female
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1 Mansplaining Abortion in Alexis Lateef’s ‘Procedure’ Jessica Durham , Mel Pearce (illustrator), 2017 single work essay criticism
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 May vol. 80 no. 2017;

'Alexis Lateef’s ‘Procedure’ draws on the conventions of Confessional poetry by women in English – particularly on the influential work of Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton – to make a creative statement resisting the masculinist imposition of clinical discourses to the raw subjective experience at the centre of this poem: the speaker’s abortion, and its visceral consequences for her rage, guilt, hurt, and defiance.' (Introduction)
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