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Facing an unintended pregnancy? How can you make your own choice?
Would abortion be a safe and sound solution now and in the future?
This handbook, written by a team of women and men, covers
parenting, abortion, and adoption. In Part 1, an experienced female
pregnancy counsellor provides a simple step-by-step guide to making
your own decision. Part 2 explores the options ahead for all
involved and answers questions you may have. Part 3 digs deeper
into health-concerns after abortion that are often overlooked.
Conservative and progressive religious groups fiercely disagree
about issues of sex and gender. But how did we get here? Melissa J.
Wilde shows how today's modern divisions began in the 1930s in the
public battles over birth control and not for the reasons we might
expect. By examining thirty of America's most prominent religious
groups-from Mormons to Methodists, Southern Baptists to Seventh Day
Adventists, and many others-Wilde contends that fights over birth
control had little do with sex, women's rights, or privacy. Using a
veritable treasure trove of data, including census and archival
materials and more than 10,000 articles, statements, and sermons
from religious and secular periodicals, Wilde demonstrates that the
push to liberalize positions on contraception was tied to complex
views of race, immigration, and manifest destiny among America's
most prominent religious groups. Taking us from the Depression era,
when support for the eugenics movement saw birth control as an act
of duty for less desirable groups, to the 1960s, by which time most
groups had forgotten the reasons behind their stances on
contraception (but not the concerns driving them), Birth Control
Battles explains how reproductive politics divided American
religion. In doing so, this book shows the enduring importance of
race and class for American religion as it rewrites our
understanding of what it has meant to be progressive or
conservative in America.
A heartbreaking, soul-baring novel about the repercussions of choice from the award-winning author of The Welsh Girl and The Fortunes.
When does sorrow turn to shame? When does love become labour? When does chance become choice? And when does fact become fiction?
A Lie Someone Told You About Yourself traces the complex consequences of one of the most personal yet public, intimate yet political, experiences a family can have: to have a child, and conversely, the decision not to have a child. A woman's first pregnancy is interrupted by test results at once catastrophic and uncertain, leaving her and her husband, a writer, reeling. A second pregnancy ends in a fraught birth, a beloved child, the purgatory of further tests - and questions that reverberate down the years.
This spare, supple narrative chronicles the flux of parenthood, marriage, and the day-to-day practice of loving someone. As challenging as it is vulnerable, as furious as it is tender, as touching as it is darkly comic, Peter Ho Davies's new novel is an unprecedented depiction of fatherhood.
Birth controlled analyses the world of selective reproduction - the
politics of who gets to legitimately reproduce the future - through
a cross-cultural analysis of three modes of 'controlling' birth:
contraception, reproductive violence and repro-genetic
technologies. It argues that as fertility rates decline worldwide,
the fervour to control fertility, and fertile bodies, does not
dissipate; what evolves is the preferred mode of control. Although
new technologies like those that assist conception or allow genetic
selection may appear to be an antithesis of other violent versions
of population control, this book demonstrates that both are part of
the same continuum. All population control policies target and
vilify women (Black women in particular), and coerce them into
subjecting their bodies to state and medical surveillance; Birth
controlled argues that assisted reproductive technologies and
repro-genetic technologies employ a similar and stratified burden
of blame and responsibility based on gender, race, class and caste.
To empirically and historically ground the analysis, the book
includes contributions from two postcolonial nations, South Africa
and India, examining interactions between the history of
colonialism and the economics of neoliberal markets and their
influence on the technologies and politics of selective
reproduction. The book provides a critical, interdisciplinary and
cutting-edge dialogue around the interconnected issues that shape
reproductive politics in an ostensibly 'post-population control'
era. The contributions draw on a breadth of disciplines ranging
from gender studies, sociology, medical anthropology, politics and
science and technology studies to theology, public health and
epidemiology, facilitating an interdisciplinary dialogue around the
interconnected modes of controlling birth and practices of
neo-eugenics. -- .
Abortion is - and always has been - an arena for contesting power
relations between women and men. When in 1973 the Supreme Court
made the procedure legal throughout the United States, it seemed
that women were at last able to make decisions about their own
bodies. In the four decades that followed, however, abortion became
ever more politicized and stigmatized. Abortion after Roe
chronicles and analyzes what the new legal status and changing
political environment have meant for abortion providers and their
patients. Johanna Schoen sheds light on the little-studied
experience of performing and receiving abortion care from the 1970s
- a period of optimism - to the rise of the antiabortion movement
and the escalation of antiabortion tactics in the 1980s to the
1990s and beyond, when violent attacks on clinics and abortion
providers led to a new articulation of abortion care as moral work.
As Schoen demonstrates, more than four decades after the
legalization of abortion, the abortion provider community has
powerfully asserted that abortion care is a moral good.
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.
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