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Maxwell offers an oral history of pro-life activism in America from the late 1970s through the early 1990s. Through the stories of leaders and followers, men and women, Catholics and evangelicals, Carol Maxwell explores the complex beliefs and desires that gave rise to this activism, sustained, and eventually undid it.

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"...a book that offers much that students of movements in all disciplines will find useful." Mobilization, Myra Max Ferree

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments; 1. Choosing incivility; 2. Pro-life direct action in St Louis 1978 to 1983: young liberals and middle-aged mainstreamers; 3. Variations in the sources of commitment; 4. Coping with bereavement through activism: real grief and imagined death; 5. Abortion experiences; 6. Pro-life conviction; 7. Persistence: a qualitative analysis; 8. Gender differences in motivation; 9. Individual choices within the shifting social, legal, and political environments; Appendix; References; Index.

ProLife Activists in America

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    A Paperback by Carol J. C. Maxwell

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      Publisher Cambridge University Press
      Published 8 December 2002
      ISBN-13 9780521669429
      978-0521669429
      ISBN-10 0521669421
      Also in:
      Ethical issues, topics and debates Ethical issues, topics and debates: reproductive health, abortion and birth control Political leaders and leadership

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Maxwell offers an oral history of pro-life activism in America from the late 1970s through the early 1990s. Through the stories of leaders and followers, men and women, Catholics and evangelicals, Carol Maxwell explores the complex beliefs and desires that gave rise to this activism, sustained, and eventually undid it.

      Trade Review
      "...a book that offers much that students of movements in all disciplines will find useful." Mobilization, Myra Max Ferree

      Table of Contents
      Acknowledgments; 1. Choosing incivility; 2. Pro-life direct action in St Louis 1978 to 1983: young liberals and middle-aged mainstreamers; 3. Variations in the sources of commitment; 4. Coping with bereavement through activism: real grief and imagined death; 5. Abortion experiences; 6. Pro-life conviction; 7. Persistence: a qualitative analysis; 8. Gender differences in motivation; 9. Individual choices within the shifting social, legal, and political environments; Appendix; References; Index.

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