Ethical issues, topics and debates: reproductive health, abortion and birth control Books
Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp Lifes Waste
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Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp Crying Time
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Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp Cult of the Dick
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Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp The Unfinished Revolution
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Hachette Books Controlling Women
Book SynopsisFully updated with bold strategies to restore and expand reproductive and sexual rights, from two lawyers at the forefront of the movement.
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Taylor & Francis Inc Fundamentals of Business Marketing Education A
Book SynopsisMake the most of your ability to teach business-to-business marketing! Fundamentals of Business Marketing Education: A Guide for University-Level Faculty and Policymakers examines the essential issues of teaching business-to-business marketing courses at all four university levels. An international network of educators and practitioners addresses the real concerns you have about developing a curriculum and formulating policy, taking into account the social and economic considerations you face in dealing with practical, methodological, and theoretical business marketing issues. Combining scholarly analysis with practical presentation and style, the book is the comprehensive reference you need to make sure your students have a thorough understanding of the interactive circle that connects instruction, research, and the corporate business world. Fundamentals of Business Marketing Education presents original papers that address the pedagogic and content issues you face at Table of Contents About the Editor Contributors Series Preface Introduction. Business-to-Business Marketing Education in the Twenty-First Century The Impetus for This Topic Purpose and Content Closing Remarks PART I: DOCTORAL PROGRAMS Doctoral Programs in Business-to-Business Marketing: Status and Prospects Introduction PhD In Business: A Look Back Data Collection Analysis Program Characteristic Differences Admission Criteria Courses and Tracks Relevance and Preparation for Teaching Character of Programs with Emphasis in Business-to-Business Deficiencies in Faculty Applicants in Business-to-Business Placements Discussion For Business Schools School Recommendation 1: Recruit Actively and Nontraditionally School Recommendation 2: Internships, Sabbaticals, and Postdocs School Recommendation 3: Rethink Reward Systems For Prospective PhDs (and Recent Graduates) Candidate Recommendation 1: Partner Early and Often Candidate Recommendation 2: Focus on Real Problems Candidate Recommendation 3: Consider Industry Employment Conclusions Challenges for Business-to-Business Doctoral Programs: A Commentary Topics Addressed: Doctoral Research, Its Impact, About Applied Research A Program of Action for Business-to-Business Doctoral Programs: A Reply to Commentary Topics Addressed: Business Marketing Context, Rigor versus Relevance, Academic Reward Systems PART II: EXECUTIVE EDUCATION PROGRAMS The Pedagogy of Executive Education in Business Markets Introduction Emergence of a Conceptual Structure in Business Marketing Education Toward a Contextual Emphasis: Executive Education in the 1990s Pedagogical Methods and Objectives Traditional Executive Programs Customized Executive Education Action Learning The Role of Technology Design Principles for Future Executive Education in Business Marketing The Paradox of Current Knowledge Metaphors As Discovery Tools Linking Explicit with Implicit Knowledge Anomaly Detection Appendix: Tools for Delivery Lectures and Case Discussions The Role of Simulations Business Marketing Executive Education: A Commentary Topical Trends in Business Marketing Executive Education Delivery of Business Marketing Executive Education Approximating Action Learning in the EMBA Classroom Executive Education in Business Markets: A Reply to Commentary Topics Addressed: Conceptual Structure in Business Marketing Education, Pedagogical Methods and Objectives, Action Learning, Role of Technology, Future Education in Business Marketing PART III: MASTER’S PROGRAMS Master’s-Level Education in Business Marketing: Quo Vadis? Methodology Research Procedure Research Analyses Results Discussion Promoting Growth in Business Marketing Education Reducing the Shortage of Master’s-Level Teaching Materials Building a Business Marketing Educators’ Network Conclusion Master’s-Level Business Marketing Education: A Commentary Introduction Discussion Suggestions for Future Research Concluding Thoughts Making Business Marketing More Prominent in Master’s Programs: A Reply to Commentary Topics Addressed: Expanding the Scope of Business-to-Business Education, Areas for Further Research, Experience in Business Marketing PART IV: UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMS Business Marketing Education: A Distinctive Role in the Undergraduate Curriculum Place in the Curriculum Directions in Business Marketing Practice Strategic Trends in Purchasing Relationship Marketing High-Technology Markets Cross-Functional Connections Fast-Paced Product Development Central Themes and Knowledge Areas Business Market Characteristics
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Abortion Trail Activism
Book SynopsisAbortion trail activists are national and transnational organizations and movements that enable access to safe abortion this open access book adopts a global perspective to explore their historic contribution to reproductive justice, their innovative work, and the continuing and emergent problems they face. Deirdre Duffy offers the first dedicated analysis of both the historic and on-going relationship between groups supporting access to abortion and abortion politics, drawing on theoretical perspectives and debates including post-colonialism, feminist anarchism and health activism. Challenging assumptions about the achievements of pro-choice politics, Duffy examines the race-based exclusions within and created by dominant historic pro-choice narratives, critiquing the prochoice movements' whiteness, and the limitations of a focus on legal change. Case studies are drawn from across the Global North and South, including examples from Argentina, Kenya, Poland, the Neth
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PublicAffairs,U.S. Belabored: A Vindication of the Rights of
Book SynopsisThe U.S. has the worst rate of maternal deaths in the developed world, a rate that is increasing, even as infant mortality rates decrease. Meanwhile, the right-wing assault on reproductive rights and bodily autonomy has also escalated. We can already glimpse a reality where embryos and fetuses have more rights than the people gestating them, and even women who aren't pregnant are seen first and foremost as potential incubators.In Belabored, journalist Lyz Lenz lays bare the misogynistic logic of U.S. cultural narratives about pregnancy, tracing them back to our murky, potent cultural soup of myths, from the religious to the historical. In the present she details, with her trademark blend of wit, snark, and raw intimacy, how sexist assumptions inform our expectations for pregnant people, whether we're policing them, asking them to make sacrifices with dubious or disproven benefits, or putting them up on a pedestal in an "Earth mother" role. Throughout, she reflects on her own experiences of being seen as alternately a vessel or a goddess--but hardly ever as herself--while carrying each of her two children. Belabored is an urgent call for us to embrace new narratives around pregnancy and the choice whether or not to have children, emphasising wholeness and agency, and to reflect those values in our laws, medicine, and interactions with each other.
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Little, Brown & Company The Choice: The Abortion Divide in America
Book SynopsisA new look at the last four decades of the abortion law and its effects from a young conservative. Abortion was legalized with the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court case in 1973. Since that time, there have been more than sixty-one million abortions. In the 1990s, President Bill Clinton told the country that abortion should be "safe, legal, and rare," but growing numbers and new laws regarding late term abortion distress conservatives and those in the right-to-life movement.As a pro-life activist and speaker, Danielle D-Souza makes the case against abortion while providing commentary on various court cases, and the movement since the 1970s. Her goal with this book is to provide a fresh look at this divisive issue.
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Ig Publishing The End Of Roe V. Wade: Inside the Right's Plan
Book SynopsisAn exploration of the sustained attack on reproductive rights in the USA in recent years, and its ramifications.
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Bold Type Books Been There, Done That: A Rousing History of Sex
Book SynopsisA rollicking, myth-busting history of sex that moves from historical attempts at birth control to Hildegard von Bingen’s treatise on the female orgasm, demystifying plenty of urban legends along the way.Roman physicians told female patients they should sneeze out as much semen as possible after intercourse to avoid pregnancy. Historical treatments for erectile dysfunction included goat testicle transplants. In this kaleidoscopic compendium of centuries-old erotica, science writer Rachel Feltman shows how much sex has changed—and how much it hasn’t. With unstoppable curiosity, she debunks myths, breaks down stigma, and uses the long, outlandish history of sex to dissect present-day practices and taboos.Feltman’s mischievous humor dismantles fear and brings scientific literacy to a subject surrounded by misinformation, and indeed, as it gravitates toward the strange, Been There, Done That delivers some sorely needed sex ed. Explorations into age-old questions and bizarre trivia around birth control, aphrodisiacs, STIs, courtship rituals, and more establish that, when it comes to carnal pleasures and procreation, there’s never been a normal, and sex isn’t something to be scared of.
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Melville House Publishing We Dissent: Justices Breyer, Sotomayor, and Kagan
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Fernwood Publishing Lawless
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC After Repeal: Rethinking Abortion Politics
Book SynopsisThe referendum to overturn Ireland’s near-total abortion ban in 2018 stands as one of the most remarkable political events of recent times. The campaign to repeal the 8th amendment succeeded not only in challenging centuries of religious and patriarchal dogma, but in signalling a major transformation in Irish society itself. After Repeal explores both the campaign and the implications of the referendum result for politics, identity and culture today. Bringing together a range of international perspectives, this collection transcends geographical and disciplinary boundaries while exploring themes including activism, artwork, social movements, law, media, democratic institutions, and reproductive technologies. This work looks beyond the Irish context and to the future, offering unique insight into the wider struggle for reproductive justice around the world.Trade ReviewIn an impressive collection of cross-disciplinary essays, After Repeal tackles the fraught history of abortion in Ireland and offers valuable, engrossing and often challenging analyses of the battle for the right to choose leading to the landslide victory for repeal of the 8th Amendment in 2018. * Ailbhe Smyth, Together for Yes *'After Repeal is bound to become a necessary read for anyone, scholarly or otherwise, wishing to understand the broad historical, political and social contexts for abortion in the Island of Ireland. * Emma Campbell, Alliance for Choice *After Repeal provides a front-line view of the diverse and committed movement that rose to meet the challenge to bring about a crucial phase of reproductive justice: we see how the feminist lawyers argued, how the visual artists inspired, and how the suburban and the rural activists engaged with their different contexts. This book is that rare combination of being scholarly yet welcoming of the person who wants to hear true stories, well-told. * Katherine O’Donnell, University College Dublin *'After Repeal is an enlightening, interdisciplinary engagement with the context and outcome of the abortion referendum. Its chapters offer well-researched insights that will be of interest to a global audience of academics and activists. * Pam Lowe, Aston University *‘An extremely valuable resource for new students and established scholars of abortion politics alike. With a compelling combination of activist and academic voices, it drives home the significance of the Repeal campaign for Ireland and for the world. * Francis Amery, University of Bath *Table of ContentsIntroduction, Sydney Calkin and Kath Browne Part I: The Politics of Repeal 1. The 2018 abortion referendum: over before it began! Theresa Reidy 2. Explaining repeal: a long-term view, Linda Connolly 3. “The only lawyer on the panel”: anti-choice lawfare in the battle for abortion law reform, Fiona de Londras and Máiréad Enright 4. Abortion pills in Ireland and beyond: what can the 8th Amendment referendum tell us about the future of self-managed abortion? Sydney Calkin 5. Of trust and mistrust: the politics of repeal, Elzbieta Drazkiewicz-Grodzicka and Máire Ní Mhórdha Part II: Campaigns and Campaigning 6. “Enough judgement”: reflections on campaigning for repeal in rural Ireland, Mary McGill 7. Campaigning for choice: canvassing as feminist pedagogy in Dublin Bay North, Niamh McDonald, Kate Antosik-Parsons, Karen E. Till, Jack Callan and Gerry Kearns 8. #Tá: pro-choice activism in the Irish language community, Lisa Nic an Bhreithimh 9. Maser’s ‘Repeal the 8th’ mural: the power of public art in the age of social media, Lorna O’Hara 10. Repealing a ‘legacy of shame’: press coverage of emotional geographies of secrecy and shame in Ireland’s abortion debate, Eric Olund Part III: Futures: Ireland and Beyond 11. Placing the Catholic Church: the moral landscape of repealing the 8th, Richard Scriven 12. Losing Ireland: heteroactivist responses to the 8th Amendment in Canada and the UK, Kath Browne and Catherine Jean Nash 13. The primacy of place: in vitro ‘unborn’ and the 8th Amendment, Noëlle Cotter 14. Northern Ireland after repealing the 8th: democratic challenges, Lisa Smyth 15. Reflections after the Irish referendum: abortion, the Catholic Church and pro-choice mobilization in Poland, Dorota Szelewa
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Duncker & Humblot GmbH Zum Einsatz der Präimplantationsdiagnostik zwecks
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The University of Chicago Press The Making of Prolife Activists
Book SynopsisHow do people become activists for causes they care deeply about? Many people with similar backgrounds, for instance, fervently believe that abortion should be illegal, but only some of them join the pro-life movement. Delving into the lives and beliefs of activists and nonactivists alike, this book examines the differences between them.Trade Review"Munson's focus on variations across pro-life activists - rather than between pro-life and pro-choice activists - adds exceptionally valuable nuance to our understanding of the movement. Along with this comparative emphasis, his clear and theoretically subversive argument makes this an original and significant book." - Elisabeth Clemens, University of Chicago"
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Indiana University Press The New Yugoslav Woman
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University of Notre Dame Press Abortion in Latin America and the Caribbean
Book SynopsisAbortion in Latin America and the Caribbean is the first major book to analyze the abortion laws of the Latin American and Caribbean nations that are parties to the American Convention on Human Rights. Making use of a broad range of materials relating to human rights and abortion law not yet available in English, the first part of this book analyzes how Inter-American human rights bodies have interpreted the American Convention's prenatal right to life. The second part examines Article 4(1) of the American Convention, comparing and analyzing the laws regarding prenatal rights and abortion in all twenty-three nations that are parties to this treaty. Castaldi questions how Inter-American human rights bodies currently interpret Article 4(1). Against the predominant view, she argues that the purpose of this treaty is to grant legal protection of the unborn child from elective abortion that is broad and general, not merely exceptional.Abortion in Latin America and the CaTrade Review“There is no other academic work that I know of, in any language, that gathers together the wealth of information presented here. Abortion in Latin America and the Caribbean will be useful to any scholar interested in the law and politics of abortion and related controversies in this hemisphere.” —Paolo Carozza, author of Italian Constitutional Justice in Global Context
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University of Wisconsin Press To Offer Compassion A History of the Clergy
Book SynopsisIn 1967, when abortion was either illegal or highly restricted in every US state, a group of ministers and rabbis founded the Clergy Consultation Service on Abortion to counsel women with unwanted pregnancies. This book offers a detailed history of this unique and largely forgotten movement.Trade ReviewTo Offer Compassion provides a glimpse of a rare moment in American history when Christian ministers and Jewish rabbis were at the forefront of the campaign for abortion rights. . . . [Dirks and Relf] were able to capture a vanishing - and for some, nearly forgotten - moment in the history of liberal religious abortion rights activism."" - Church History""Provide[s] critically important social history that too many in today’s abortion wars have never known or chosen to forget."" - Publishers Weekly""Timely and the message is on point."" - Faith Matters
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LUP - University of Michigan Press Opposition and Intimidation
Book SynopsisThe abortion fight has long been a crucible of political tactics, with both sides employing strategies ranging from litigation to civil disobedience to outright violence. This book looks at how anti-abortion activists' use of political harassment fits - or doesn't - with more conventional political efforts in the struggle over abortion.
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University of California Press Abortion the Politics of Motherhood 3 California
Book SynopsisA study of the abortion controversy in the United States. It examines the issues, people, and beliefs on both sides of the abortion conflict. It draws data from public documents and newspaper accounts, as well as over two hundred interviews with both pro-life and pro-choice activists.Table of ContentsForeword Preface Acknowledgments 1 Introduction 2 Medicine and Morality in the Nineteenth Century 3 The Century of Silence 4 Abortion Reform: The Professionals' Dilemma 5 Women and the Right to Abortion 6 The Emergence of the Right-to-Life Movement 7 World Views of the Activists 8 Motherhood and Morality in America 9 The Future of the Debate Appendix 1: Methodology Appendix 2: Tables Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Reproduction Reconceived
Book SynopsisThe 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. Trade Review"Reproduction Reconceived is an urgent reminder that a renewed fight for the right to choose must do more than restore legal access to abortion." * Chicago Review *"Reproduction Reconceived is based on extensive research. . . .Its arguments and conclusions shed new light on the harsh conditions that encumber so many women’s efforts at family-making, call for a change in values that fully appreciate and support the essential work of private and public caregiving, and insist that making reproductive choice a reality demands the elimination of inequities based on gender, race, class and sexuality.' * Society for U.S. Intellectual History *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Labor of Illegibility: Lesbian and Single Motherhood According to the Law 2. The Labor of Captivity: Incarcerated Mothers and Their Children 3. The Labor of Survival: Racism, Poverty, and the Uses of Infant Mortality Rates 4. The Labor of Risk: Or, How to Have a Family in the HIV/AIDS Epidemic 5. The Labor of "Choice": Navigating the Abortion Debate and Lifelines of Last Resort Epilogue Acknowledgments Notes Selected Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Birth Control Battles How Race and Class Divided
Book SynopsisConservative 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 groupsfrom Mormons to Methodists, Southern Baptists to Seventh Day Adventists, and many othersWilde 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.Trade Review"For observers of American religion who are left scratching their heads at the state of contemporary American religion, race relations, and reproductive politics, Birth Control Battles is an essential read." * Sociology of Religion: A Quarterly Review *"Wilde’s Birth Control Battles is a thoroughly enlightening and impressively researched book . . .Her monograph is a landmark contribution to scholarship on modern American religion and politics with a critically important perspective on the roots of contemporary and ongoing debates over reproductive rights, religious freedom, and privacy." * Reading Religion *“Birth Control Battles is a gift to scholars of religion, gender, class, and immigration who work from both historical and sociological perspectives, modelling precise qualitative methods and careful reading and interpretation.” * Feminist Encounters *"This book accomplishes exactly what it sets out to do: Wilde produces an impeccable account of the doctrinal trajectories ofU.S. denominations on the birth-control issue, questioning widespread assumptions about present-day alignments. She also raises the bar for design, rigor, and clarity in comparative historical research." * American Journal of Sociology *"Melissa Wilde’s book is a unique—and uniquely powerful—examination of a topic far broader and more complex than the title suggests. . . . the book [is] insightful and useful to a much broader audience." * Contemporary Sociology *"Birth Control Battles gives scholars new and necessary starting points for exploring the linkages between religion and contraception.” * American Catholic Studies *"Readers can come away from the work understanding that progressive and conservative thought have not always existed monolithically, that religiously motivated political activism is complex, and that historical perspectives remain important in understanding current political conversations." * Society for U.S. Intellectual History *"This clearly written, well-organized, and cogently argued book offers new ways of studying the history of birth control politics in the United States. . . . Invigorating." * Church History *"Meticulously researched…a true exemplar of intersectional research." * Social Forces *"Birth Control Battles provides a compelling angle for why reproductive politics divided—and continues to dominate—American religion." * Religiology *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations and Tables Acknowledgments Introduction Part I From Abolition to Eugenics 1. American Religious Activism in the Twentieth Century 2. Mobilizing America’s Religious Elite in the Service of Eugenics Part II Liberalization, 1929–1931 3. The Early Liberalizers: "The Church Has a Responsibility for the Improvement of the Human Stock" 4. The Supporters: "God Needed the White Anglo-Saxon Race" 5. The Critics: "Atlanta Does Not Believe in Race Suicide" 6. The Silent Groups: "Let the Christian Get Away from Heredity" Part III From Legality to the Pill, 1935–1965 7. The Religious Promoters of Contraception: Remaining Focused on Other People's Fertility 8. The Forgotten Half: America's Reluctant Contraceptive Converts Conclusion: A Century Later Notes References Index
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University of California Press Obstacle Course
Book SynopsisIt seems unthinkable that citizens of one of the most powerful nations in the world must risk their lives and livelihoods in the search for access to necessary health care. And yet it is no surprise that in many places throughout the United States, getting an abortion can be a monumental challenge. Anti-choice politicians and activists have worked tirelessly to impose needless restrictions on this straightforward medical procedure that, at best, delay it and, at worst, create medical risks and deny women their constitutionally protected right to choose.Obstacle Course tells the story of abortion in America, capturing a disturbing reality of insurmountable barriers people face when trying to exercise their legal rights to medical services. Authors David S. Cohen and Carole Joffe lay bare the often arduous and unnecessarily burdensome process of terminating a pregnancy: the sabotaged decision-making, clinics in remote locations, insurance bans, harassing protesters, forced ultrasounds anTrade Review"The authors present the actual experience [of abortion], and in doing so reveal the courage, intelligence and determination of patients, often dismissed as confused or selfish, and providers, often attacked as heartless and greedy." * Washington Post *"Obstacle Course is a provocation and guide for more a robust engagement within medical anthropology on abortion politics, laws, and care. . . . This book is accessibly written for audiences moved by stories about the everyday stakes of health care politics and will be an invaluable resource for use in anthropology, sociology, history, legal studies, gender studies, public health, and ethics courses." * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *"Cohen and Joffe detail with painstaking and often heartrending clarity the intersectional gauntlet of obstacles that many seeking an abortion must navigate." * Signs *Table of Contents1. Introduction: The Turbulent State of Abortion in America 2. Making the Decision: Coping with Roadblocks, Deception, and Lies 3. Finding and Getting to a Clinic: Hard to Find, Harder to Reach 4. Coming Up With the Money: The Biggest Barrier 5. Getting In: Chaos at the Clinic Door 6. Counseling at the Clinic: Government-Mandated Deceit 7. Waiting Periods: Logistical Nightmares, Potentially Serious Delays 8. The Procedure: Politics Overrides Medical Expertise 9. An Alternate Vision: Abortion as Normal Health Care Notes Acknowledgments Index
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University of California Press Fighting Mad
Book SynopsisA compendium of creative strategies for building the world we want, this book . . . models the myriad ways that people can make a difference in the lives of their peers and simultaneously improve their communities.-The ProgressiveA fierce and galvanizing reminder that resistance is everywhere in the fight for abortion and reproductive justice in the United States. Fighting Mad is a book about what reproductive justice means and what it looks like to fight for it. Editors Krystale E. Littlejohn and Rickie Solinger bring together many of the strongest, most resistant voices in the country to describe the impacts of the Supreme Court's Dobbs decision on abortion access and care. The essayists and change agents gathered in Fighting Mad represent a remarkable breadth of expertise: activists and artists, academics and abortion storytellers, health care professionals and legislators, clinic directors and lawyers, and so many more. They discuss abortion restrictions and strategies to pr
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Beginning Lives
Book SynopsisIn this text book Rosalind Hursthouse examines the complex questions surrounding the morality of abortion.Table of Contents1. The status of the fetus ; 2. Women's rights arguments ; 3. Trying to prove the fetus lacks rights ; 4. Abandoning the sanctity of life ; 5. Grounds for personal decisions ; 6. Some general conclusions
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Princeton University Press Sex and Consequences
Book SynopsisHow do individuals change their behavior when abortion access increases? This book uses economic analysis to consider this question, comparing abortion to a form of insurance. It includes an analysis which suggests that the manner in which individuals change their behavior depends on the extent to which abortion is accessible.Trade Review"The book's virtues are formidable. Levine writes clearly, avoids jargon ... and is unfailingly civil in characterizing the positions in the abortion debate."--Charles Murray, Public Interest "Readers unfamiliar with the academic economic publications of Levine (Wellesley College) will find his approach ... novel and intriguing... Levine does a thorough job of providing the institutional (both domestic and international) and analytical background to make the work accessible to economists as well as to readers not trained in economics... Highly recommended."--ChoiceTable of ContentsLIST OF FIGURES ix LIST OF TABLES xiii PREFACE xv ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xvii CHAPTER ONE Introduction 1 CHAPTER TWO Abortion Law and Practice 9 CHAPTER THREE Economic Models of Fertility and Abortion 39 CHAPTER FOUR Methods for Evaluating the Impact of Policy Changes 65 CHAPTER FIVE The Impact of Abortion Legalization 77 CHAPTER SIX The Impact of Restrictions on Abortion Access 107 CHAPTER SEVEN Abortion Policy in an International Perspective 133 CHAPTER EIGHT Unfinished Business 158 CHAPTER NINE Summary and Implications for Abortion Policy 186 NOTES 195 REFERENCES 201 INDEX 211
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Foetal Condition
Book SynopsisAbortion is a contentious issue in social life but it has rarely been subjected to careful scrutiny in the social sciences. While the legalization of abortion has brought it into the public domain, it still remains a sensitive topic in many cultures, often hidden from view and rarely spoken about, consigned to a shadowy existence. Drawing on reports gathered from hospital settings and in-depth interviews with women who have had abortions, Luc Boltanski sets out to explain the ambiguous status of this social practice. Abortion, he argues, has to remain in the shadows, for it reveals a contradiction at the heart of the social contract: the principle of the uniqueness of beings conflicts with the postulate of their replaceable nature, a postulate without which no society would achieve demographic renewal. This leads Boltanski to explore the way human beings are engendered and to analyze the symbolic constraints that preside over their entry into society. WhatTrade Review'An utterly original treatment of an interminably discussed issue. Combining anthropological reflection with interviews, social theorizing with hospital reports, Boltanski produces an account that recasts the question of abortion, even as it cannot fail to annoy all sides in the current debate.'Nancy Fraser, The New School for Social Research 'The Foetal Condition is not a political intervention, it does not rehash for us the endless arguments for or against abortion. Rather, it is about a far more startling topic: the connection between abortion and the process of engendering, becoming a member of the human species, at once generic and particular. Using a large range of anthropological evidence, Boltanski shows that societies have always practiced abortion, and that the silences, prohibitions or tacit acceptation of abortion touch on the troubling question of how societies define a "human being". This highly original book cannot fail to become a classic among anthropologists, sociologists, philosophers, and ethicists.'Eva Illouz, Hebrew University of JerusalemTable of ContentsIntroduction 11 he Anthropological Dimensions of Abortion 112 The Two Constraints on Engendering 393 Understandings 60 4 The Parental Project 905 Constructing Foetal Categories 1256 The Justification of Abortion 1587 The Experience of Abortion 193Conclusion: Forgetting Abortion 233Notes 251Works Cited 299Index 317
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University of British Columbia Press Abortion
Book SynopsisThis volume highlights abortion experiences in the post-Morgentaler era and links new approaches to abortion history and research to the growing movement for reproductive justice.Trade ReviewAbortion is unique in that it ties together the perspectives of scholars in history, politics, and law, as opposed to other compilations that focus on works from one particular field, echoing the intersectionality of modern day reproductive justice framework. -- Megan Siu, Community Developer & Educational Specialist Centre, CPLEA * Canadian Law Library Review *[…][i]n 2019 it is ever more evident that a broader concept of reproductive justice is one that encompasses not only our reproductive health but legal, social and economic justice as well. This book helps move us in that direction. -- Amanda Le Rougetel * Herizons *Table of ContentsIntroduction / Shannon Stettner, Kristin Burnett, and Travis HayPart 1: History1 Different Histories: Reproduction, Colonialism, and Treaty 7 Communities in Southern Alberta, 1880–1940 / Kristin Burnett2 Not Guilty but Guilty? Race, Rumour, and Respectability in the 1882 Abortion Trial of Letitia Munson / Rebecca Beausaert3 Abortion and Birth Control on the Canadian Prairies: Feminists, Catholics, and Family Values in the 1970s / Erika DyckPart 2: Experience4 He Is Still Unwanted: Women’s Assertions of Authority over Abortion in Letters to the Royal Commission on the Status of Women in Canada / Shannon Stettner5 Abortion on Trial: Abortion Tribunals in the 1970s and 1980s / Beth Palmer6 The Dark, Well-Kept Secret: Abortion Experiences in the Maritime Provinces / Katrina Ackerman7 When Research Is Personal and Political: Researchers Reflect on the Study of Abortion / Marion Doull, Christabelle Sethna, Evelyne Morrissette, and Caitlin ScottPart 3: Politics8 Functionally Inaccessible: Historical Conflicts in Legal and Medical Access to Abortion / Frances E. Chapman and Tracy Penny Light9 Morgentaler and the Technological Production of Embodiment / Jen Rinaldi10 Between a Woman and Her Doctor? The Medicalization of Abortion Politics in Canada / Rachael Johnstone11 Subverting the Constitution: Anti-abortion Policies and Activism in the United States and Canada / Lori Brown, J. Shoshanna Ehrlich, and Colleen MacQuarriePart 4: Discourse and Reproductive Justice12 The Future of Pro-choice Discourse in Canada / Kelly Gordon and Paul Saurette13 Reproductive Justice in Canada: Exploring Immigrant Women’s Experiences / Laura Salamanca14 Toxic Matters: Vital and Material Struggles for Environmental Reproductive Justice / Sarah Marie WiebeConclusion / Kristin Burnett and Shannon Stettner
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Cornell University Press Catholics and Contraception
Book SynopsisAs Americans rethought sex in the twentieth century, the Catholic Church''s teachings on the divisive issue of contraception in marriage were in many ways central. In a fascinating history, Leslie Woodcock Tentler traces changing attitudes: from the late nineteenth century, when religious leaders of every variety were largely united in their opposition to contraception; to the 1920s, when distillations of Freud and the works of family planning reformers like Margaret Sanger began to reach a popular audience; to the Depression years, during which even conservative Protestant denominations quietly dropped prohibitions against marital birth control.Catholics and Contraception carefully examines the intimate dilemmas of pastoral counseling in matters of sexual conduct. Tentler makes it clear that uneasy negotiations were always necessary between clerical and lay authority. As the Catholic Church found itself isolated in its strictures against contraceptionand the object ofTrade ReviewCatholics and Contraception is a welcome exploration of the Catholic discourse on birth control over the century leading up to 1968. Tentler's work is thorough, nuanced, and engaging. Her argument about the centrality of birth control practices in lay lives and the significance of Humane Vitae in the church's history is so persuasive and well supported that her work stands as a definitive history of contraception and a major contribution to our understanding of the broader American Catholic history in the twentieth century. * Journal of Social History *Readers of this critical study of American Catholics' reception of their church's doctrinal position on contraception will be astounded at the scope and depth of the author's analysis.... The American context, especially in the decades from 1870 to 1930, presents a number of special cultural difficulties, such as a desire to embrace scientific discovery about the body, upholding the primacy of human liberty, and a semi-puritanical disdain for public discussion of sex—all of which led mainline Protestant Americans toward private contraceptive practice. Catholics often publicly broke with such mores, but gradually capitulated, especially after the 1960s. Tentler's study does yeoman work in explaining why. Highly recommended. * Choice *In Catholics and Contraception: An American History, Leslie Woodcock Tentler treats American Catholic culture across the 20th century.... Tentler says, lay people today are exercising individual moral authority without communal shaping influences.... In her view, even Catholics who disagree with the Church's teaching on contraception want pastoral leadership and a corporate identity as Catholic, not just American. 'Desires like these,' Tentler concludes, 'ought to form the substance of ongoing communal reflection' of conversations that involve every constituency in the church. How ironic, not to say tragic, that birth control gets in the way. -- Jenelle Williams Paris * Books and Culture, *Tentler shows the larger forces of cultural change and the development of mores which would impact views of sex and sexuality beyond simply the contraception question/issue. Her work brings together an incredible amount of research into the archives of dioceses and religious orders, especially those who preached the once popular parish missions which were a bulwark of support for the Church's position on birth control.... This book deserves to be read not only by historians, but by all theology students, clergy, bishops, and everyone who wishes to have a better understanding of how the constant Tradition of the Church develops in this critical area. -- James T. Bretzke S.J., University of San Francisco * Catholic Books Review *Tentler's account is thoroughly researched, well written, and makes good use of clergy interviews and Catholic archives and publications. * Journal of Religion *
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Stanford University Press The New States of Abortion Politics
Book SynopsisTrade Review"The New States of Abortion Politics will change how we think about abortion politics in America." -- Kristin Luker * author of Abortion and the Politics of Motherhood *"The New States of Abortion Politics is invaluable in understanding the current political realities surrounding this vital issue. Well written, insightful, and original." -- Erwin Chemerinsky * author of The Case Against the Supreme Court *Table of ContentsContents and Abstracts1Violence, Law, and Abortion Politics chapter abstractThis chapter provides a broad and detailed view of contemporary abortion politics. It specifically uses Massachusetts's turbulent history of attempts to regulate antiabortion activism in front of clinics to introduce McCullen v. Coakley—the book's central Supreme Court case—and uses it to expose the more contentious and visible phase of abortion politics. It goes on to explore the assent and effect of professional elites and the complexity of abortion politics that exists even within a state that many simply assume to be liberal and in support of abortion rights. 2From Allies to Alliances in the Antiabortion Movement chapter abstractThe second chapter focuses on the importance of professional legal resources for the contemporary politics of abortion. If a movement is going to be successful in court, it needs to work to develop or acquire and support premier legal talent. The New Christian Right, inclusive of the antiabortion movement, has rapidly and effectively done so as evidenced by a close examination of the lawyers and legal organizations involved in McCullen v. Coakley. 3The Past as the Possible Future of Abortion Politics chapter abstractThe third and final chapter places McCullen v. Coakley within the broader contexts of both the history and contemporary state of abortion politics in order to discuss the possible future of the broader conflict. The step back taken in this chapter allows one to better understand why abortion is a contentious issue in the United States, and how the judiciary generally, and the United States Supreme Court specifically, have been the formative engines of abortion politics. The essay's discussion up through Texas House Bill 2 and the resulting Supreme Court case of Whole Woman's Health v Hellerstedt help demonstrate that although the specifics change over time, the established fundamentals of the political process will likely continue to dictate the future forms of the conflict.
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Rutgers University Press An Open Secret The History of Unwanted Pregnancy
Book SynopsisAn Open Secret traces the history of women’s experiences with unwanted pregnancy and abortion in La Paz and El Alto, Bolivia between the early 1950s and 2010. It finds that women’s personal reproductive experiences contributed to shaping policies and services in reproductive health care.Trade Review"An Open Secret illuminates with precision the logics governing women’s reproductive lives in La Paz and El Alto, Bolivia. With broad implications for understanding gender relations globally, Kimball shows how discourses about 'choice' and 'rights' fail to capture the competing impulses and complicated terrain that women must navigate, and why access to health care services is a critical component of economic and social development." -- Mala Htun * co-author of The Logics of Gender Justice: State Action on Women's Rights Around the World *"Kimball’s remarkable book offers a sensitive analysis of oral histories by women from La Paz and El Alto; it connects individuals’ deeply personal, intimate reflections on sexuality and reproduction to shifting local cultures, national politics, and global paradigms." -- Jadwiga Pieper Mooney * author of The Politics of Motherhood: Maternity and Women's Rights in Twentieth-Century Chile *Historias 98 interview with Natalie Kimball https://secolas.org/media/historias-98-el-embarazo-no-deseado-y-el-aborto-en-bolivia-con-natalie-kimball/ * Historias 98 *"Abortion in Bolivia: An Open Secret," by Beth Harpaz https://sum.cuny.edu/abortion-bolivia-secret-law-college-staten-island/ * SUM *"This beautifully written book is a must-read for anyone interested in gender equality and reproductive justice. It serves as a model for how to write a book with sensitivity and rigor, defining the politically fraught topics of abortion and unwanted pregnancy 'as human experiences.' It is a powerful reminder that what is at stake – women’s lives – is not something that should be up for political debate." * Nursing Clio *"At the heart of Kimball's study are the voices of women speaking about their experiences with pregnancy, which are curated from 113 oral interviews conducted with women and men in La Paz and El Alto....By guiding us through the complexities of these attitudes and decisions, Kimball achieves their goal: readers will likely view these decisions and the women making them with ‘greater compassion and respect.'" * Gender & History *"An Open Secret makes a case for narrative accounts as essential data for interpreting statistical and archival studies about how individuals navigate the complex avenues of reproduction. Moreover, Kimball's use of oral history elevates the intimate experiences of women as explicitly political." * Hispanic American Historical Review *"Kimball’s book offers a rare insight into the most intimate details of women’s lives, through their own testimony of their experience. It is carefully and sensitively researched and provides a wealth of detail on the social norms, practices, and laws and around reproduction." -- Maxine Molyneux * The Middle Ground Journal *Table of ContentsTable of Contents List of Figures and Maps Abbreviations Introduction Chapter One, Legislating Unwanted Pregnancy and Abortion in Bolivia Chapter Two, Double Discourses: Social Attitudes on Sexuality and Reproduction Chapter Three, Feelings, Attitudes, and Decisions: Reproductive Decision-Making in the Urban Andes Chapter Four, Navigating Unwanted Pregnancy in La Paz and El Alto, 1950s-1980s Chapter Five, Unwanted Pregnancy and Abortion in the Wake of Democracy, 1982-2010 Chapter Six, Abortion and the Law in La Paz and El Alto Conclusion Acknowledgments Appendix Bibliography Index
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Rutgers University Press An Open Secret The History of Unwanted Pregnancy
Book SynopsisAn Open Secret traces the history of women’s experiences with unwanted pregnancy and abortion in La Paz and El Alto, Bolivia between the early 1950s and 2010. It finds that women’s personal reproductive experiences contributed to shaping policies and services in reproductive health care.Trade Review"An Open Secret illuminates with precision the logics governing women’s reproductive lives in La Paz and El Alto, Bolivia. With broad implications for understanding gender relations globally, Kimball shows how discourses about 'choice' and 'rights' fail to capture the competing impulses and complicated terrain that women must navigate, and why access to health care services is a critical component of economic and social development." -- Mala Htun * co-author of The Logics of Gender Justice: State Action on Women's Rights Around the World *"Kimball’s remarkable book offers a sensitive analysis of oral histories by women from La Paz and El Alto; it connects individuals’ deeply personal, intimate reflections on sexuality and reproduction to shifting local cultures, national politics, and global paradigms." -- Jadwiga Pieper Mooney * author of The Politics of Motherhood: Maternity and Women's Rights in Twentieth-Century Chile *Historias 98 interview with Natalie Kimball https://secolas.org/media/historias-98-el-embarazo-no-deseado-y-el-aborto-en-bolivia-con-natalie-kimball/ * Historias 98 *"Abortion in Bolivia: An Open Secret," by Beth Harpaz https://sum.cuny.edu/abortion-bolivia-secret-law-college-staten-island/ * SUM *"This beautifully written book is a must-read for anyone interested in gender equality and reproductive justice. It serves as a model for how to write a book with sensitivity and rigor, defining the politically fraught topics of abortion and unwanted pregnancy 'as human experiences.' It is a powerful reminder that what is at stake – women’s lives – is not something that should be up for political debate." * Nursing Clio *"At the heart of Kimball's study are the voices of women speaking about their experiences with pregnancy, which are curated from 113 oral interviews conducted with women and men in La Paz and El Alto....By guiding us through the complexities of these attitudes and decisions, Kimball achieves their goal: readers will likely view these decisions and the women making them with ‘greater compassion and respect.'" * Gender & History *"An Open Secret makes a case for narrative accounts as essential data for interpreting statistical and archival studies about how individuals navigate the complex avenues of reproduction. Moreover, Kimball's use of oral history elevates the intimate experiences of women as explicitly political." * Hispanic American Historical Review *"Kimball’s book offers a rare insight into the most intimate details of women’s lives, through their own testimony of their experience. It is carefully and sensitively researched and provides a wealth of detail on the social norms, practices, and laws and around reproduction." -- Maxine Molyneux * The Middle Ground Journal *Table of ContentsTable of Contents List of Figures and Maps Abbreviations Introduction Chapter One, Legislating Unwanted Pregnancy and Abortion in Bolivia Chapter Two, Double Discourses: Social Attitudes on Sexuality and Reproduction Chapter Three, Feelings, Attitudes, and Decisions: Reproductive Decision-Making in the Urban Andes Chapter Four, Navigating Unwanted Pregnancy in La Paz and El Alto, 1950s-1980s Chapter Five, Unwanted Pregnancy and Abortion in the Wake of Democracy, 1982-2010 Chapter Six, Abortion and the Law in La Paz and El Alto Conclusion Acknowledgments Appendix Bibliography Index
£105.40
Duke University Press The Empty Cradle of Democracy
Book SynopsisAn ethnographic study that shows how similar national and cultural beliefs about gender, sexuality, and Greekness are the basis of both the public condemnation of abortion and its prevalence in Greece.Trade Review“Alexandra Halkias probes the tension between the male-centered, hegemonic assumptions of European nationalism and the representation of the nation as a female body (and the female body as a national property) with an adroit irony leavened by perceptive compassion. At the heart of the paradox of modern Greece, cast as both the despised backwater and the glorious cradle of ‘the West,’ she incisively dissects a concomitant paradox: insistent calls to fill the cradle coexist with a remarkably high rate of abortion. This is politically forthright cultural analysis grounded in intimate and yet also wide-ranging observation.”—Michael Herzfeld, Harvard University“The question of Greek women’s ready use of abortion and their ‘failure’ to use other methods of birth control is one that for some time has intrigued anthropologists. Alexandra Halkias offers provocative arguments regarding the ‘naturalness’ of abortion and the relationship between sexuality and national identity.”—Jill Dubisch, author of In a Different Place: Pilgrimage, Gender, and Politics at a Greek Island ShrineTable of ContentsAcknowledgents xi Introduction 1 Part 1. The Agoras of Agon 1. Setting the Stage: Athens, Greece, Fantasy, and History 19 2. Stage Left: Greek Women 35 3. Center Stage: What is Greece? 53 4. Stage Right: The Demografiko 77 Part 2. In Context, in Contests 5. In the Operating Room: On Cows, Greece, and the Smoking Fetus 89 6. Give Birth for Greece! Abortion and Nation in the Greek Press 113 Part 3. Sexing the Nation 7. Navigating the Night 135 8. The Impossible Dream: The Couple as Mother 207 9. Abortion, Pain, and Agency 235 10. Reprosexuality and the Modern Citizen Face the Specter of Turkey 291 11. A Critical Cartography of the Demografiko’s Greece 319 Epilogue: Theory and Policy 345 Notes 349 References 381
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Edward Elgar Publishing Reproduction Policy in the TwentyFirst Century
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£85.00
Bristol University Press Reimagining Global Abortion Politics
Book SynopsisThis book considers how societal influences, such as religion, nationalism and culture, impact abortion law and access. It provides an accessible, informative and engaging text for academics, policy makers and readers interested in abortion politics.Trade Review"This book makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the global politics of abortion, and to shaping our advocacy strategies. It shows how reproductive justice helps to bridge the gap between the Global North and South." Marlene Gerber Fried, Professor of Philosophy and Director, Hampshire College"With clarity and an impressively wide reach, this book shows how abortion politics are shaped by local contexts but connected by broader, global contexts about morality, equality, control and reproductive freedom. An indispensable addition to the scholarship." Fiona de Londras, Law School, University of BirminghamTable of ContentsIntroduction Criminalisation The biomedicalisation of abortion Abortion discourses: Religion, culture, nation International interventions Activism Is choice enough? Engaging with reproductive justice Conclusion
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Bristol University Press Reimagining Global Abortion Politics
Book SynopsisThis book considers how societal influences, such as religion, nationalism and culture, impact abortion law and access. It provides an accessible, informative and engaging text for academics, policy makers and readers interested in abortion politics.Trade Review"This book makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the global politics of abortion, and to shaping our advocacy strategies. It shows how reproductive justice helps to bridge the gap between the Global North and South." Marlene Gerber Fried, Professor of Philosophy and Director, Hampshire College"With clarity and an impressively wide reach, this book shows how abortion politics are shaped by local contexts but connected by broader, global contexts about morality, equality, control and reproductive freedom. An indispensable addition to the scholarship." Fiona de Londras, Law School, University of BirminghamTable of ContentsIntroduction Criminalisation The biomedicalisation of abortion Abortion discourses: Religion, culture, nation International interventions Activism Is choice enough? Engaging with reproductive justice Conclusion
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Bristol University Press Repealing the 8th
Book SynopsisIrish law only currently allows for abortion where the life of the pregnant woman is at risk. A constitutional referendum will be held in 2018 to liberalise abortion law. This book offers practical proposals for policymakers and advocates, including model legislation, making it an essential campaigning tool leading up to the referendum.Trade Review"Nuanced, detailed and clearly explained, even for laypeople like me. A map through the quagmire of Ireland’s reproductive laws” Tara Flynn, Comedian, Actor and Repeal the 8th Campaigner"A quick and mandatory read for anyone seeking the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth about the 8th Amendment.” Mara Clarke, Founder, Abortion Support Network."This text's novel proposals for Irish abortion law reform make it an essential read." Brid A Ni Ghrainne, Sheffield University"An incisive, forensic and comprehensive analysis of the legal implications of the 8th amendment to the Irish Constitution in 1983." Linda Connolly, Maynooth University"This careful analysis of the 8th amendment, with its succinct roadmap for reform, should be compulsory reading for Irish legislators." Sandra McAvoy, Historian"This concise critique cuts through decades of controversy with a compelling case for repeal and proposes a workable legislative solution. Bravo!" Ailbhe Smyth, Convenor, Coalition to Repeal the 8thTable of ContentsThe case for repealing the 8th The Constitution after the 8th A rights-based approach to abortion Accessing abortion care: principles for legislative design Model legislation Conclusion
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Cornell University Press The Criminalization of Abortion in the West
Book SynopsisAnyone who wants to understand how abortion has been treated historically in the western legal tradition must first come to terms with two quite different but interrelated historical trajectories. On one hand, there is the ancient Judeo-Christian condemnation of prenatal homicide as a wrong warranting retribution; on the other, there is the juristic definition of crime in the modern sense of the word, which distinguished the term sharply from sin and tort and was tied to the rise of Western jurisprudence. To find the act of abortion first identified as a crime in the West, one has to go back to the twelfth century, to the schools of ecclesiastical and Roman law in medieval Europe.In this book, Wolfgang P. Müller tells the story of how abortion came to be criminalized in the West. As he shows, criminalization as a distinct phenomenon and abortion as a self-standing criminal category developed in tandem with each other, first being formulated coherently in the twelfth century aTrade Review[T]he argumentation is intricate. To put it differently, this reader found that the importance of Criminalization rose to the surface upon a second reading. For, this is an important book, which will interest historians across the sub-disciplinary spectrum and not only late medievalists. It provides a stimulating account of the theoretical and practical development of medieval criminal justice and will become a sine qua non in the history of abortion. -- Zubin Mistry * The Mediæval Journal *The Criminalization of Abortion in the West examines the processes which led to the voluntary killing of a human fetus becoming a crime, as opposed to a sin or a wrong compensable by a money payment....This book should be regarded as essential reading for those studying the interface between law and medicine in medieval Europe, to legal historians and social historians. -- Gwen Seabourne * Social History of Medicine *Muller traces the tortuous path of the treatment of abortion as a public crime (felony) between the late 12th and early 16th centuries.... He succeeds in demonstrating the shift in the settlement of disputes from the pre-12th-century local control of justice depending on local power and the strength of family status to a more public hearing under the control of centralizing authorities.... Added to these public tribunals to investigate abortion as a crime was the widespread public attitude that regarded it as no more than a sin, if that, subject to confession to a priest and the performance of penance. * Choice *Table of ContentsIntroductionChapter 1. The Earliest Proponents of Criminalization The Scholastic Origins of Criminal Abortion Forms of Sentencing in Medieval Jurisprudence Crimen in "An Age without Lawyers" (500–1050)Chapter 2. Early Venues of Criminalization Crimen in Sacramental Confession Judicial Crimen in the Ecclesiastical Courts Public Penitential Crimen Royal Jurisdiction in Thirteenth-Century EnglandChapter 3. Chief Agents of Criminalization Legislation versus Juristic Communis Opinio Communis Opinio and Peer Dissent Systematic Law before the Rise of the Modern StateChapter 4. Principal Arguments in Favor of Criminalization Successive Animation and Creatianism Legal and Theological Assessments of Therapeutic Abortion The Demise of Late Medieval EmbryologyChapter 5. Objections to Criminalization Customary Indifference North and East of the River Rhine Rejection in the Royal Courts of England (1327–1557)6. Abortion Experts and Expertise Evidence of Midwifery Medical Embryology and Abortion Discourse Abortifacient PrescriptionsChapter 7. Abortion in the Criminal Courts of the Ius Commune Criminal Accusationes and Inquisitiones The Rules and Safeguards of Ordinary Inquisitiones Extraordinary InquisitionesChapter 8. Forms of Punishment in the Criminal Courts of the Ius Commune Statutory and Customary Specifications Substitute Penalties Adjustment Out of CourtChapter 9. The Frequency of Criminal Prosecutions Viable Statistical Queries Geography and Patterns of Record Keeping A Triad of Typical CasesBibliography Index
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Bristol University Press Beyond Pro-life and Pro-choice: The Changing
Book SynopsisExamining the changing pluralities of contemporary abortion debate in Britain, this innovative and important book shows why it is necessary to move beyond an understanding of abortion politics as characterised in binary terms by ‘pro-choice’ versus ‘pro-life’. Amery traces the evolution of political and parliamentary discourses from the passage of the Abortion Act in the 1960s to the present day, and argues that the current provision of abortion in Britain rests on assumptions about medical authority over women’s reproductive decision-making which are unsustainable. She explores new arguments around sex-selective abortion, disability rights, pre-abortion counselling and the push for decriminalization, and radically reconceptualizes the debate to account for these new battlegrounds in abortion politics.Trade Review“An innovative text in the field of reproductive justice literature, Amery provides a sophisticated account of the intricacies of the abortion debate for both students of Politics and Gender Studies and practitioners.” Sarah Cooper, University of ExeterTable of Contents1. Introduction 2. Regulating the female body 3. Passing the Abortion Act 4. Feminism enters the debate 5. Backlash and appropriation 6. Into the 21st century 7. Towards decriminalisation? New battlegrounds in abortion politics 8. Conclusion
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Bristol University Press Beyond Pro-life and Pro-choice: The Changing
Book SynopsisTracing the evolution of political and parliamentary discourses on abortion in Britain from the passage of the Abortion Act in the 1960s to the present day, this interdisciplinary book argues that to understand the changing pluralities of the abortion debate it is necessary to move beyond an understanding of abortion politics as characterised by ‘pro-choice’ versus ‘pro-life’.Trade Review“An innovative text in the field of reproductive justice literature, Amery provides a sophisticated account of the intricacies of the abortion debate for both students of Politics and Gender Studies and practitioners.” Sarah Cooper, University of ExeterTable of Contents1. Introduction 2. Regulating the female body 3. Passing the Abortion Act 4. Feminism enters the debate 5. Backlash and appropriation 6. Into the 21st century 7. Towards decriminalisation? New battlegrounds in abortion politics 8. Conclusion
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St Augustine's Press Aborting Aristotle – Examining the Fatal
Book SynopsisThe abortion debate has returned. More than forty years have passed since the landmark decision Roe v. Wade, which legalized abortion in the United States. But the abortion debate continues to rage among ethicists and the influencers of society in politics, government, and the arts. Dave Sterrett’s Aborting Aristotle examines these essential differences philosophically, while investigating the naturalistic worldview about humanity that is frequently held by many of the scholarly defenders of abortion. Each year 44 million babies are killed from intentional abortion around the world. 1.29 million babies are aborted right here in the United States. These are not just merely cold statistics: These are human beings . . . real babies. Sterrett reveals the unreasonableness of abortion and argues against abortion even in the difficult circumstances. In the ancient world, infanticide was defended by Plato and Aristotle. Christians who believed in the sacredness of human life stopped infanticide and intellectually argued against the practice. Peter Singer, professor of ethics at Princeton, hopes the time has come for atheists to reassess the morality of infanticide “without assuming the Christian moral framework that has, for so long, prevented any fundamental reassessment” [Peter Singer, Practical Ethics (Cambridge University Press, UK; 1993), 173.] Dave Sterrett takes on Peter Singer, along with other scholarly defenders of abortion, including David Boonin, Michael Tooley, and Judith Jarvis Thomson. Although he is against Aristotle’s teaching in favor of abortion, Sterrett argues that Aristotle had much good in his metaphysical and logical teachings that Western education has forgotten. Sterrett draws upon current scientific knowledge of the human embryo to provide reasons for a restoration of the Aristotelian scholastic philosophical tradition that could help ethicists become more open-minded about the dignity and personhood of unborn human beings.Table of ContentsTABLE OF CONTENTS 1. INTRODUCTION 2. ARISTOTLE & THOMAS JEFFERSON 3. METAPHYSICS IS ESSENTIAL TO THE ETHICAL DEBATE ON ABORTION. 4. DENYING THE METAPHYSICS OF PERSONS IS SELF-REFUTING. 5. LACKING EPISTEMOLOGICAL PRECISENESS CONCERNING HUMAN BEINGS DOES NOT DISPROVE THE TRUTH ABOUT THEIR EXISTENCE ONTOLOGICALLY. 6. NATURALISTIC MATERIALISM IS NOT THE BEST EXPLANATION FOR REALITY 7. THE TERMS “SANCTITY” AND “NATURAL THEOLOGY” SHOULD NOT NECESSARILY BE DISMISSED IN PHILOSOPHY OR LAW BECAUSE IT MIGHT HAVE IMPLICATIONS OF THE DIVINE. God is the best explanation for a first efficient cause. God is the best explanation for a necessary entity. God is the best explanation for moral realism. 8. ARISTOTLE’S ANCIENT CONCEPT OF SUBSTANCE IS STILL RELEVANT AND COMPATIBLE WITH SCIENCE. 9. ALL HUMANS ARE PERSONS. 10. All HUMAN PERSONS ARE SOMEONE FOR WHOM THEY ARE AND NOT SOMEONE FOR WHAT THEY DO. 11. CONCLUSION: SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES There can be a greater purpose in some suffering encountered in life. Humans are responsible for what they could have prevented. Racism is wrong. Animals should be treated with respect. A fetus is an individual member of the species homo sapiens. Philosophers’ ethical stance of abortion is frequently rooted in their metaphysical beliefs. Those in favor of abortion frequently emphasize hypotheticals, while defenders of life use Aristotlean logic with premises about real life. 11. BIBLIOGRAPHY Index
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University of Massachusetts Press Certain Concealments: Poe, Hawthorne, and Early
Book SynopsisAntebellum America saw a great upsurge in abortion, driven in part by the rise of the pharmaceutical industry. Unsurprisingly, the practice became increasingly visible in the popular culture and literature of the era, appearing openly in advertisements, popular fiction, and newspaper reports. One figure would come to dominate national headlines from the 1840s onward: Madame Restell. Facing public condemnation and mob attacks at her home for her dogged support of women's reproductive rights, Restell built an empire selling her powders, pills, and services along the Eastern Seaboard.Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne undoubtedly knew of Restell's work and would go on to depict the incompatibility of abortion and nationalism in their writings. Through the thwarted plotlines, genealogical interruptions, and terminated ideas of Poe's Dupin trilogy and Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, The House of Seven Gables, and The Blithedale Romance, these authors consider new concepts around race, reproduction, and American exceptionalism. Dana Medoro demonstrates that their work can be usefully read in the context of debates on fetal life and personhood that circulated in the era.
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University of Massachusetts Press Certain Concealments: Poe, Hawthorne, and Early
Book SynopsisAntebellum America saw a great upsurge in abortion, driven in part by the rise of the pharmaceutical industry. Unsurprisingly, the practice became increasingly visible in the popular culture and literature of the era, appearing openly in advertisements, popular fiction, and newspaper reports. One figure would come to dominate national headlines from the 1840s onward: Madame Restell. Facing public condemnation and mob attacks at her home for her dogged support of women's reproductive rights, Restell built an empire selling her powders, pills, and services along the Eastern Seaboard.Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne undoubtedly knew of Restell's work and would go on to depict the incompatibility of abortion and nationalism in their writings. Through the thwarted plotlines, genealogical interruptions, and terminated ideas of Poe's Dupin trilogy and Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, The House of Seven Gables, and The Blithedale Romance, these authors consider new concepts around race, reproduction, and American exceptionalism. Dana Medoro demonstrates that their work can be usefully read in the context of debates on fetal life and personhood that circulated in the era.
£65.45
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Research Handbook on International Abortion Law
Book SynopsisThe Research Handbook on International Abortion Law provides an in-depth, multidisciplinary study of abortion law around the world, presenting a snapshot of global policies during a time of radical change. With leading scholars from every continent, Mary Ziegler illuminates key forces that shaped the past and will influence an unpredictable future.In addition to basic, fundamental concepts, this Research Handbook offers valuable insight into new developments in law and medical practice, from medication abortion to the rise of illiberal democracy, and explores the evolution of social movements for and against illegal abortion in a wide variety of national contexts. This is a crucial reference for students, scholars, professors, and policymakers interested in the complexities of abortion law and politics, and the influences that are crossing borders and shaping the present moment.Trade Review‘This is a critically important volume on international abortion law, which looks beyond the United States to bring a broader, deeper conversation into view.’ -- Michele Goodwin, University of California, Irvine, US‘This book offers an extraordinarily rich view of the complex challenges of framing and implementing abortion law in many countries around the world. Read it and you will learn about the human, legal and power dynamics surrounding abortion and how they interact across time, race, religion and class.’ -- Rebecca J. Cook, University of Toronto, CanadaTable of ContentsContents: Preface xiv PART I INTRODUCTION 1 Introduction to the Research Handbook on International Abortion Law 2 Mary Ziegler PART II HISTORIES OF LIBERALIZATION 2 Health and heredity: abortion reform in Sweden in the 1930s and 1940s 22 Lena Lennerhed 3 Before Roe and Morgentaler: a comparative history of abortion politics in the US and Canada from 1800 to 1970 39 Kelly Gordon and Paul Saurette 4 Unfinished business: the feminist legal framework for abortion and ongoing struggle for reproductive justice in South Africa 61 Susanne M. Klausen PART III THE PROMISE AND LIMITS OF DECRIMINALIZATION 5 Abortion law reform in Malawi: a case study in stakeholder engagement, public education, and human rights advocacy 82 Godfrey Dalitso Kangaude, Chrispine Gwalawala Sibande, Susan Deller Ross, and Michelle Xiao Liu 6 Abortion law in Thailand: a big step forward? 103 Ronnakorn Bunmee 7 Abortion in Australia: law, policy and the advancement of reproductive rights 124 Ronli Sifris PART IV ABORTION IN POPULAR POLITICS 8 Access to abortion: comparative public policy in France and the United States 142 Jennifer Merchant 9 The transformation of abortion law in China 160 Ruby Lai Yuen Shan 10 Abortion and federalism: the Australian example 181 Kate Gleeson 11 Israel’s abortion law and the paradox of a rightless access to pregnancy terminations 202 Noya Rimalt PART V MOVEMENTS AGAINST ABORTION 12 Abortion politics in Brazil: backlash and the antiabortion field renewal 222 Marta R. de Assis Machado 13 The international pro-life movement 243 Daniel K. Williams 14 Abortion law and illiberal courts: spotlight on Poland and Hungary 263 Agnieszka Bień-Kacała and Tímea Drinóczi PART VI RACE, SEX, RELIGION 15 Enhancing reproductive justice transnationally: an equality-based approach to sex-selective abortion laws in India 284 Sital Kalantry and Meher Dev 16 Abortion, law and health in the Arab world 303 Irene Maffi and Liv Tønnessen 17 Abortion in Ecuador: overview of a collective struggle 321 Cristina Burneo Salazar PART VII THE ROLE OF INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS 18 Beyond abortion decriminalization: human rights perspectives on the role of law in creating enabling environments for abortion access 343 Payal K. Shah and Jihan Jacob 19 Abortion law in Europe: the promise and pitfalls of human rights and transnational trade law in the face of criminalization with exceptions 374 Lucía Berro Pizzarossa, Tamara Hervey and Anniek de Ruijter 20 Engendering democracy and rights: the legalization of abortion in Argentina 394 Alicia Ely Yamin and Agustina Ramón Michel 21 Abortion, reform, and rights: tales from a small island 420 Fiona de Londras Index
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Watkins Media Limited From a Whisper to a Shout: Abortion Activism and
Book SynopsisAbortion remains legal in the US, but access has been slowly eroded since prohibition was ruled unconstitutional nearly fifty years ago. Simultaneously abortion remains culturally stigmatised - it is kept secret and presumed shameful. But feminist activists are working to increase access and challenge this stigma. Numerous organisations and campaigns are challenging abortion stigma using the internet and social media and intersectional feminist sensibilities. From A Whisper to a Shout takes a closer look at four of these organisations - #ShoutYourAbortion, Lady Parts Justice, #WeTestify, and The Abortion Diary - and how they are integrating feminist tactics, social media, and political strategies to challenge abortion stigma and promote abortion access.
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Oxford University Press Abortion
Book SynopsisMoving beyond traditional liberal versus conservative arguments for and against abortion, Abortion: Three Perspectives is an up-to-date, accessible, and engaging exploration of this highly contentious issue. Featuring a triangular debate between four prominent moral and political philosophers, it presents three different political perspectives: Michael Tooley argues the liberal pro-choice approach; Philip E. Devine and Celia Wolf-Devine argue the communitarian pro-life approach; and Alison M. Jaggar argues the gender justice approach. However, each of the authors'' self-identifications is also challenged by one or more of the other authors, who offer alternative interpretations of liberalism, communitarianism, and feminism. All of these viewpoints are controversial, among both philosophers and general readers. Furthermore, because the arguments do not rely on religious authority, they are directed at all readers, regardless of religious affiliation. Abortion: Three Perspectives is diviTrade ReviewHere, four distinguished philosophers cross words, and often wires, in discussing the ethics of abortion. Crossed swords and crossed wires both generate sparks. The result is an intellectual firework display that should not be missed. * Charles Foster, Contemporary Review *Table of ContentsPART I. ; ABORTION: WHY A LIBERAL VIEW IS CORRECT ; 1. Thinking about the Morality of Abortion, and Discussing It with Others ; 2. A Brief Overview of My Defense of a Liberal Position on Abortion ; 3. Abortion and the Appeal to Religious Revelation ; 4. The Appeal to an Immaterial, Rational Mind ; 5. The Appeal to Psychological Capacities ; 6. Two Biological Anti-Abortion Arguments ; 7. Potentiality Arguments against Abortion ; 8. The Identity of Persons and Biological Organisms Argument ; 9. Are Moderate Positions on Abortion Tenable? ; 10. The Moral Status of Abortion: A Final Summing Up ; ABORTION: A COMMUNITARIAN PRO-LIFE PERSPECTIVE ; 1. Where We Are Now ; 2. Methodology ; 3. The Prima Facie Case against Abortion ; 4. The Status of the Unborn ; 5. The Pregnant Woman ; 6. Questions of Law ; 7. Policy Recommendations ; 8. Role and Limits of Philosophy ; 9. Conclusion ; ABORTION RIGHTS AND GENDER JUSTICE WORLDWIDE: AN ESSAY IN POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY ; 1. Introduction ; 2. Mapping the Philosophical Terrain ; 3. Liberalism and Feminism: Two Thin Commitments of Political Morality ; 4. Designing Just Institutions in an Unjust World: Some Methodological Commitments ; 5. Some Principles of Political Morality Salient to Abortion in the Real World ; 6. Abortion: Human Rights, Gender Equality, and the Public Good ; 7. Objections to Abortion Rights ; 8. Conclusion ; PART II. ; RESPONSE TO ALISON M. JAGGAR, CELIA WOLF-DEVINE, AND PHILIP E. DEVINE ; Comments on Alison M. Jaggar's Essay ; Reply to Celia Wolf-Devine and Philip E. Devine ; 1. Species Membership and the Right to Life ; 2. The 'Reductio' Objection, and the 'Change-of-Address' Objection ; 3. Potentialities and the Right to Life ; Summing Up ; RESPONSE TO MICHAEL TOOLEY AND ALISON M. JAGGAR ; 1. Response to Tooley ; 2. Response to Jaggar ; 3. A Final Word ; RESPONSE TO MICHAEL TOOLEY, CELIA WOLF-DEVINE, AND PHILIP E. DEVINE ; 1. Methodology ; 2. Political Philosophy ; 3. Reality ; 4. Policy ; 5. Sailing under True Colors
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