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Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Ethical issues & debates > Abortion
Authors Marvin Olasky and Leah Savas detail the long history of
abortion and its impact on American culture through vivid personal
stories that humanize people on both sides of the debate.
What are the contemporary issues in abortion politics globally?
What factors explain variations in access to abortion between and
within different countries? This text provides a
transnationally-focused, interdisciplinary analysis of trends in
abortion politics using case studies from around the Global North
and South. It considers how societal influences, such as religion,
nationalism and culture, impact abortion law and access. It
explores the impact of international human rights norms, the
increasing displacement of people due to conflict and crisis and
the role of activists on law reform and access. The book concludes
by considering the future of abortion politics through the more
holistic lens of reproductive justice. Utilising a unique
interdisciplinary approach, this book provides a major contribution
to the knowledge base on abortion politics globally. It provides an
accessible, informative and engaging text for academics, policy
makers and readers interested in abortion politics.
What are the contemporary issues in abortion politics globally?
What factors explain variations in access to abortion between and
within different countries? This text provides a
transnationally-focused, interdisciplinary analysis of trends in
abortion politics using case studies from around the Global North
and South. It considers how societal influences, such as religion,
nationalism and culture, impact abortion law and access. It
explores the impact of international human rights norms, the
increasing displacement of people due to conflict and crisis and
the role of activists on law reform and access. The book concludes
by considering the future of abortion politics through the more
holistic lens of reproductive justice. Utilising a unique
interdisciplinary approach, this book provides a major contribution
to the knowledge base on abortion politics globally. It provides an
accessible, informative and engaging text for academics, policy
makers and readers interested in abortion politics.
Illegal. Underground. Deadly. August 1, 1875, Toronto: The naked
body of a young woman is discovered in a pine box, half-buried in a
ditch along Bloor Street. So begins Jeannie's Demise, a real-life
Victorian melodrama that played out in the bustling streets and
courtrooms of "Toronto the Good," cast with all the lurid stock
characters of the genre. Historian Ian Radforth brings to life an
era in which abortion was illegal, criminal proceedings were a
spectator sport, and coded advertisements for back-alley procedures
ran in the margins of newspapers. At the centre of the story is the
elusive and doomed Jeannie Gilmour, a minister's daughter whose
independent spirit can only be glimpsed through secondhand accounts
and courtroom reports. As rumours swirl about her final weeks and
her abortionists stand trial for their lives, a riveted public
grapples with questions of guilt and justice, innocence and intent.
Radforth's intensive research grounds the tragedy of Jeannie's
demise in sharp historical analysis, presenting over a dozen case
studies of similar trials in Victorian-era Canada. Part gripping
procedural, part meticulous autopsy, Jeannie's Demise opens a rare
window into the hidden history of a woman's right to choose.
Available Open Access under CC-BY licence. Irish law currently
permits abortion only where the life of the pregnant woman is at
risk. Since 1983, the 8th Amendment to the Constitution has
recognised the "unborn" as having a right to life equal to that of
the "mother". Consequently, most people in Ireland who wish to
bring their pregnancies to an end either import the abortion pill
illegally, travel abroad to access abortion, or continue with the
pregnancy against their will. Now, however, there are signs of
change. A constitutional referendum will be held in 2018, after
which it will be possible to reimagine, redesign, and reform the
law on abortion. Written by experts in the field, this book draws
on experience from other countries, as well as experiences of
maternal medical care in Ireland, to call for a feminist,
woman-centered, and rights-based radical new approach to abortion
law in Ireland. Directly challenging grounds-based abortion law,
this accessible guide brings together feminist analysis,
comparative research, human rights law, and political awareness to
propose a new constitutional and legislative settlement on
reproductive autonomy in Ireland. It offers practical proposals for
policymakers and advocates, including model legislation, making it
an essential campaigning tool leading up to the referendum.
Caroline Bancroft History Prize 2021, Denver Public Library
Armitage-Jameson Prize 2021, Coalition of Western Women's History
David J. Weber Prize 2021, Western History Association W.
Turrentine Jackson Prize 2021, Western History Association Tiny You
tells the story of one of the most successful political movements
of the twentieth century: the grassroots campaign against legalized
abortion. While Americans have rapidly changed their minds about
sex education, pornography, arts funding, gay teachers, and
ultimately gay marriage, opposition to legalized abortion has only
grown. As other socially conservative movements have lost young
activists, the pro-life movement has successfully recruited more
young people to its cause. Jennifer L. Holland explores why
abortion dominates conservative politics like no other cultural
issue. Looking at anti-abortion movements in four western states
since the 1960s-turning to the fetal pins passed around church
services, the graphic images exchanged between friends, and the
fetus dolls given to children in school-she argues that activists
made fetal life feel personal to many Americans. Pro-life activists
persuaded people to see themselves in the pins, images, and dolls
they held in their hands and made the fight against abortion the
primary bread-and-butter issue for social conservatives. Holland
ultimately demonstrates that the success of the pro-life movement
lies in the borrowed logic and emotional power of leftist activism.
First edition, Winner of the Arthur J. Viseltear Prize, American
Public Health Association With an emphasis on the American West,
Eugenic Nation explores the long and unsettled history of eugenics
in the United States. This expanded second edition includes
shocking details demonstrating that eugenics continues to inform
institutional and reproductive injustice. Alexandra Minna Stern
draws on recently uncovered historical records to reveal patterns
of racial bias in California's sterilization program and documents
compelling individual experiences. With the addition of radically
new and relevant research, this edition connects the eugenic past
to the genomic present with attention to the ethical and social
implications of emerging genetic technologies.
View the Table of Contents.
Read the Introduction.
"Nelson presents the tip of the iceberg of the history of the
involvement of women of color, specifically, African-American women
and Latinas in the movements for rights."--"Conscience"
"This book is an important contribution to the growing
reexamination of the women's health movement. This is a useful
book, an interesting book, a book that tells our
history."--"Politics, Social Movements, and The State"
While most people believe that the movement to secure voluntary
reproductive control for women centered solely on abortion rights,
for many women abortion was not the only, or even primary,
focus.
"A valuable contribution."
--"Feminist Collections"
Jennifer Nelson tells the story of the feminist struggle for
legal abortion and reproductive rights in the 1960s, 1970s, and
early 1980s through the particular contributions of women of color.
She explores the relationship between second-wave feminists, who
were concerned with a woman's right to choose, Black and Puerto
Rican Nationalists, who were concerned that Black and Puerto Rican
women have as many children as possible "for the revolution," and
women of color themselves, who negotiated between them. Contrary to
popular belief, Nelson shows that women of color were able to
successfully remake the mainstream women's liberation and abortion
rights movements by appropriating select aspects of Black
Nationalist politics--including addressing sterilization abuse,
access to affordable childcare and healthcare, and ways to raise
children out of poverty--for feminist discourse.
Caroline Bancroft History Prize 2021, Denver Public Library
Armitage-Jameson Prize 2021, Coalition of Western Women's History
David J. Weber Prize 2021, Western History Association W.
Turrentine Jackson Prize 2021, Western History Association Tiny You
tells the story of one of the most successful political movements
of the twentieth century: the grassroots campaign against legalized
abortion. While Americans have rapidly changed their minds about
sex education, pornography, arts funding, gay teachers, and
ultimately gay marriage, opposition to legalized abortion has only
grown. As other socially conservative movements have lost young
activists, the pro-life movement has successfully recruited more
young people to its cause. Jennifer L. Holland explores why
abortion dominates conservative politics like no other cultural
issue. Looking at anti-abortion movements in four western states
since the 1960s-turning to the fetal pins passed around church
services, the graphic images exchanged between friends, and the
fetus dolls given to children in school-she argues that activists
made fetal life feel personal to many Americans. Pro-life activists
persuaded people to see themselves in the pins, images, and dolls
they held in their hands and made the fight against abortion the
primary bread-and-butter issue for social conservatives. Holland
ultimately demonstrates that the success of the pro-life movement
lies in the borrowed logic and emotional power of leftist activism.
For the past forty years, prominent pro-life activists, judges and
politicians have invoked the history and legacy of American slavery
to elucidate aspects of contemporary abortion politics. As is often
the case, many of these popular analogies have been imprecise,
underdeveloped and historically simplistic. In Slavery, Abortion,
and the Politics of Constitutional Meaning, Justin Buckley Dyer
provides the first book-length scholarly treatment of the parallels
between slavery and abortion in American constitutional
development. In this fascinating and wide-ranging study, Dyer
demonstrates that slavery and abortion really are historically,
philosophically and legally intertwined in America. The nexus,
however, is subtler and more nuanced than is often suggested, and
the parallels involve deep principles of constitutionalism.
The landmark case Roe v. Wade redefined family: it is now
commonplace for Americans to treat having children as a choice. But
the historic decision also coincided with widening inequality, an
ongoing trend that continues to make choice more myth than reality.
In this new and timely history, Matthiesen shows how the effects of
incarceration, for-profit healthcare, disease, and poverty have
been worsened by state neglect, forcing most to work harder to
maintain a family.
Abortion and Mothering: Research, Stories, and Artistic Expressions
of a Common Intersection is a collection of academic research,
personal narratives, and art that comments on different
perspectives on abortion and mothering. Scholarly research is
balanced with voices and experiences from outside of academia,
through the inclusion of personal narratives, poetry, and art. The
collection is rooted in the idea that there are not 'women who have
abortions' and 'women who have babies', but that they are the same
women at different points in their lives. By considering the
intersection of abortion and mothering, and the liminal spaces in
between, the reader is challenged to explore some of the culturally
and socially constructed complexities that surround the decisions
that people make about to their reproductive lives.
In this brave and devastatingly beautiful anthology, the
illustrious poet and editor Aracelis Girmay gathers complex and
intimate pieces that illuminate the nuances of personal and
collective histories, analyses, practices, and choices surrounding
pregnancy. Featuring the brilliant voices of writers such as Cheryl
Boyce-Taylor, Patricia Smith, Elizabeth Alexander, and more, this
book is a lighthouse-a tool and companion-for those navigating
pregnancy, abortion, miscarriage, birth, loss, grief, and love. In
So We Can Know: Writers of Color on Pregnancy, Loss, Abortion, and
Birth, pieces range from essays to poems to interviews, with a
broad entanglement of various themes, from many different
perspectives including Black, Indigenous, Asian, Latinx, and more.
At a time when people are becoming more and more limited in their
choices surrounding pregnancy and abortion, this record is
increasingly urgent and indispensable.
This book is meant to provide an overview of and gather the
literature on abortion -- one of the most divisive issues of our
times. Honest women and men the world over must deal with this
issue in their hearts and minds whether or not they ever face the
issue personally. It is hard to conceive of a single thinking
person who doesn't have an opinion on abortion -- usually strongly
held. The arguments are cogent on both sides of the issue. We hope
that this collection will bring to the attention of readers the
publications which shed light on the fundamental issues involved.
Updated to include the 2007 decision Gonzales v. Carhart, this
volume provides all of the major Supreme Court decisions on
abortion--as well as many majority, dissenting, and plurality
opinions--carefully edited for use in undergraduate and graduate
courses in a variety of disciplines. In his introductory essay,
Shapiro sets these cases in political, historical, and
philosophical context, and gives the reader a sense of what the
main issues in the constitutional law of abortion are likely to be
in the future.
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