When pro-choice individuals expect to feel relieved after their abortions, they often express discomfort with ambivalence and try to minimize “negative feelings.” By conducting interviews (n = 27) with feminists about their recent abortions, I examine what produces this tension and find multiple explanations. In terms of their own interests, respondents fear being (perceived as) “bad feminists” for harboring ambivalence over their abortions, and regarding others, worry that anti-abortion activists will misrepresent their experiences to further attack abortion rights. Ultimately, I use the feeling rules framework and the concepts of personal and collective identity to explain how—in this and other social movement contexts—political affiliation shapes the way someone manages their private emotions. I also examine how the processes of emotion management and identity formation are intertwined. On the one hand, their political identities compel the feminists in my sample to express certain emotions, and on the other hand, by expressing dominant emotions, they reinforce the strength of their pro-choice identities and what it means to have a feminist abortion. This explains why activists are more likely than non-activists to self-police their abortion-related emotions.

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想要“女权主义堕胎体验”：情感工作、集体认同和亲选择话语1

当支持选择的人希望在堕胎后感到安心时，他们通常会表达出矛盾的不安，并试图尽量减少“负面情绪”。通过进行访谈（n = 27）与女权主义者谈论他们最近的堕胎，我研究了是什么产生了这种紧张，并找到了多种解释。就自身利益而言，受访者担心因对堕胎抱有矛盾心理而被（被视为）“坏女权主义者”，而对于其他人，则担心反堕胎活动家会歪曲他们的经历以进一步攻击堕胎权利。最终，我使用感觉规则框架以及个人和集体身份的概念来解释——在这种和其他社会运动背景下——政治归属如何塑造一个人管理他们私人情绪的方式。我还研究了情绪管理和身份形成的过程是如何交织在一起的。一方面，她们的政治身份迫使我样本中的女权主义者表达某些情绪，另一方面，通过表达支配性的情绪，她们强化了她们支持选择的身份的力量以及女权主义堕胎的意义。这解释了为什么激进主义者比非激进主义者更有可能自我调节与堕胎相关的情绪。