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A fragmented landscape : abortion governance and protest logics in Europe
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ISBN: 1789200717 178533428X 1785334271 Year: 2017 Publisher: New York ; Oxford, [England] : Berghahn Books,

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Since World War II, abortion policies have remained remarkably varied across European nations, with struggles over abortion rights at the forefront of national politics. This volume analyses European abortion governance and explores how social movements, political groups, and individuals use protests and resistance to influence abortion policy. Drawing on case studies from Italy, Spain, Norway, Poland, Romania, Russia, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the European Union, it analyses the strategies and discourses of groups seeking to liberalise or restrict reproductive rights. It also illuminates the ways that reproductive rights politics intersect with demographic anxieties, as well as the rising nationalisms and xenophobia related to austerity policies, mass migration and the recent terrorist attacks in Europe. 


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Feminisms in Latin America : pro-choice nested networks in Mexico and Brazil
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ISBN: 1108911226 1108911781 1108919251 1108825966 Year: 2022 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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This Element analyzes the features of current feminist movements in Latin America and their responses to conservative reactions. For this, it focuses on the pro-choice movement vis-à-vis the anti-abortion countermovement in Mexico and Brazil. It offers a relational approach embracing the dynamics within the feminist field and between feminism and the state to capture the movements' potential effects. First, the Element proposes the concept of nested feminist networks, which comprises of three dimensions revealing the plurality of the movement across intersectional and sexual identity issues (horizontal), its relationship with the multifaceted state (vertical), and the intermediation of political parties and participatory institutions in this relationship (intermediary). Second, it argues that nested networks allow feminists to enable policies and block actions from conservatives. In sum, it explores how feminists, leveraging their plurality and connection with the state, can counter conservative attacks.

Contested lives : the abortion debate in an American community
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ISBN: 052092245X 0585054479 9780520922457 9780585054476 0520064925 0520064933 9780520064928 0520064925 9780520064935 0520064933 Year: 1998 Publisher: [Place of publication not identified] University of California Press

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Based on the struggle over a Fargo, North Dakota, abortion clinic, Contested Lives explores one of the central social conflicts of our time. Both wide-ranging and rich in detail, it speaks not simply to the abortion issue but also to the critical role of women's political activism.A new introduction addresses the events of the last decade, which saw the emergence of Operation Rescue and a shift toward more violent, even deadly, forms of anti-abortion protest. Responses to this trend included government legislation, a decline in clinics and doctors offering abortion services, and also the formation of Common Ground, an alliance bringing together activists from both sides to address shared concerns. Ginsburg shows that what may have seemed an ephemeral artifact of "Midwestern feminism" of the 1980s actually foreshadowed unprecedented possibilities for reconciliation in one of the most entrenched conflicts of our times.

Shaping abortion discourse
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ISBN: 052179384X 052179045X 1107121302 0511177313 0511041101 0511158270 0511304927 0511613687 1280429879 0511046618 9780511046612 9780511158278 9780521790451 9780511041105 9786610429875 6610429871 9780521793841 9780511613685 Year: 2002 Publisher: Cambridge, UK New York Cambridge University Press

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Using controversy over abortion as a lens through which to compare the political process and role of the media in these two very different democracies, this book examines the contest over meaning that is being waged by social movements, political parties, churches and other social actors. Abortion is a critical battleground for debates over social values in both countries, but the constitutional premises on which arguments rest differ, as do the strategies that movements and parties adopt and the opportunities for influence that are open to them. By examining how these debates are conducted and by whom in light of the normative claims made by democratic theorists, the book also offers a means of judging how well either country lives up to the ideals of democratic debate in practice.

Our right to choose : toward a new ethic of abortion.
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ISBN: 0807015083 0807015091 9780807015094 9780807015087 Year: 1983 Volume: 673 Publisher: Boston Beacon

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