Abortion And The Politics Of Motherhood
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Author | : Kristin Luker |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 342 |
Release | : 1985-08-04 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0520907922 |
In this important study of the abortion controversy in the United States, Kristin Luker examines the issues, people, and beliefs on both sides of the abortion conflict. She draws data from twenty years of public documents and newspaper accounts, as well as over two hundred interviews with both pro-life and pro-choice activists. She argues that moral positions on abortion are intimately tied to views on sexual behavior, the care of children, family life, technology, and the importance of the individual.
Author | : Alexis Jetter |
Publisher | : UPNE |
Total Pages | : 404 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Motherhood |
ISBN | : 9780874517804 |
Essays and interviews explode the myth of apolitical motherhood by showing how 20th century women have politicized their role as mothers in a wide range of social contexts.
Author | : Joshua C. Wilson |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 129 |
Release | : 2016-06-08 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 150360053X |
The 2014 Supreme Court ruling on McCullen v. Coakley striking down a Massachusetts law regulating anti-abortion activism marked the reengagement of the Supreme Court in abortion politics. A throwback to the days of clinic-front protests, the decision seemed a means to reinvigorate the old street politics of abortion. The Court's ruling also highlights the success of a decades' long effort by anti-abortion activists to transform the very politics of abortion. The New States of Abortion Politics, written by leading scholar Joshua C. Wilson, tells the story of this movement, from streets to legislative halls to courtrooms. With the end of clinic-front activism, lawyers and politicians took on the fight. Anti-abortion activists moved away from a doomed frontal assault on Roe v. Wade and adopted an incremental strategy—putting anti-abortion causes on the offensive in friendly state forums and placing reproductive rights advocates on the defense in the courts. The Supreme Court ruling on Whole Woman's Health v. Hellerstedt in 2016 makes the stakes for abortion politics higher than ever. This book elucidates how—and why.
Author | : Kristin Luker |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 318 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Health & Fitness |
ISBN | : 9780674217034 |
Traces the way popular attitudes came to demonize young mothers and examines the profound social and economic changes that have influenced debate on the issue, especially since the 1970s. --From publisher description.
Author | : Erica Millar |
Publisher | : Zed Books Ltd. |
Total Pages | : 253 |
Release | : 2017-12-15 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1786991330 |
‘A provocative and important book that every pro-choice advocate should read.’ Sinéad Kennedy, Coalition to Repeal the 8th Amendment When it comes to abortion, today’s liberal climate has produced a common sense that is both pro-choice and anti-abortion. The public are fed an unchanging version of what the abortion choice entails and how women experience it. While it would prove highly unpopular to insist that all pregnant women should carry their pregnancy to term, the idea that abortion could or should be a happy experience for women is virtually unspeakable. In this careful and intelligent work, Erica Millar shows how the emotions of abortion are constructed in sharp contrast to the emotional position occupied by motherhood – the unassailable placeholder for women’s happiness. Through an exposition of the cultural and political forces that continue to influence the decisions women make about their pregnancies – forces that are synonymous with the rhetoric of choice – Millar argues for a radical reinterpretation of women’s freedom.
Author | : Jadwiga E. Pieper Mooney |
Publisher | : University of Pittsburgh Pre |
Total Pages | : 318 |
Release | : 2009-12-06 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0822973618 |
With the 2006 election of Michelle Bachelet as the first female president and women claiming fifty percent of her cabinet seats, the political influence of Chilean women has taken a major step forward. Despite a seemingly liberal political climate, Chile has a murky history on women's rights, and progress has been slow, tenuous, and in many cases, non-existent. Chronicling an era of unprecedented modernization and political transformation, Jadwiga E. Pieper Mooney examines the negotiations over women's rights and the politics of gender in Chile throughout the twentieth century. Centering her study on motherhood, Pieper Mooney explores dramatic changes in health policy, population paradigms, and understandings of human rights, and reveals that motherhood is hardly a private matter defined only by individual women or couples. Instead, it is intimately tied to public policies and political competitions on nation-state and international levels. The increased legitimacy of women's demands for rights, both locally and globally, has led to some improvements in gender equity. Yet feminists in contemporary Chile continue to face strong opposition from neoconservatism in the Catholic Church and a mixture of public apathy and legal wrangling over reproductive rights and health.
Author | : Kristin Luker |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0520055977 |
Examines the issues, people, and beliefs on both sides of the abortion conflict.
Author | : Michele Goodwin |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 339 |
Release | : 2020-03-12 |
Genre | : Health & Fitness |
ISBN | : 110703017X |
In Policing the Womb, Michele Goodwin explores how states abuse laws and infringe on rights to police women and their pregnancies. This book looks at the impact of these often arbitrary laws which can result in the punishment, incarceration, and humiliation of women, particularly poor women and women of color. Frequently based on unscientific claims of endangering a fetus, these laws allow extraordinary powers to state authorities over reproductive freedom and pregnancies. In this book, Michele Goodwin discusses real examples of women whose pregnancies have been controlled by the law and what has led to the United States being the deadliest country in the developed world for a woman to be pregnant.
Author | : Mary S. Melcher |
Publisher | : University of Arizona Press |
Total Pages | : 263 |
Release | : 2012-09-20 |
Genre | : Family & Relationships |
ISBN | : 0816528462 |
Mary Melcher's Pregnancy, Motherhood, and Choice in Twentieth-Century Arizona provides a deep and diverse history of the dramatic changes in childbirth, birth control, infant mortality, and abortion over the course of the last century. Using oral histories, memoirs, newspaper accounts, government documents, letters, photos, and biographical collections, this fine-grained study of women's reproductive health places the voices of real women at the forefront of the narrative, providing a personal view into some of the most intense experiences of their lives.
Author | : Robert D. Goldstein |
Publisher | : University of California Press |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2021-01-08 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0520362349 |
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1988.