About abortion : terminating pregnancy in twenty-first-century America
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- ISBN: 9780674737723
- ISBN: 0674737725
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xv, 304 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm - Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2017.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Machine generated contents note: 1. About Abortion -- 2. Law from Roe Forward -- 3. Abortion Privacy/Abortion Secrecy -- 4. Eye of the Storm -- 5. Facing Your Fetus -- 6. "You Had Body You Died" -- 7. Sending Pregnant Teenagers to Court -- 8. Fathers and Fetuses---What Would Men Do? -- 9. Normalizing Abortion. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at University College of the North Libraries.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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The Pas Campus Library | HQ 767.15 .S26 2017 (Text) | 58500000469031 | Stacks | Volume hold | Available | - |
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The author considers how women make decisions about unwanted pregnancy in the context of personal, cultural, and legal constraints that affect the issue of abortion in modern America. Drawing on judicial decisions, statutes, media reports, pop culture references, and sources from history, sociology, and anthropology, as well as examples in literature, she emphasizes how abortion is regulated through law, how it is discussed or not discussed, and abortion imagery, showing how the law works to make the lives of women with unwanted pregnancies harder than they have to be. Belknap Press is an imprint of Harvard U. Press. Annotation ©2017 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com) - Choice Reviews : Choice Reviews 2017 August
US abortion politics is unique for many reasons. Sanger's book dissects not just the law as it has evolved over 40 years but also how people talk and draw imagery and cultural battles to stake out positions. Her focus is on women's silence about their personal experiences with abortion because they fear being labeled or shunned. The failure to discuss thereby produces images of who gets abortions and for what motives, generating stereotypes often effectively used by those opposed to abortion to regulate and ban the practice. The overall thesis is to deconstruct the contemporary way abortion is debated, offering direction and suggestions for a new way to discuss it in the 21st century by removing the stigma silence produces. Sanger covers topics that include fetal imaging, parental consent, men and abortion, and assumptions about women who seek abortions. This is perhaps the best book ever written on the multiple facets surrounding abortion politics, law, and regulation. An excellent addition to collections on reproductive rights, gender politics, women and the law, and American politics. Summing Up: Essential. All readership levels.
--D. Schultz, Hamline University
David Schultz
Hamline University
David Schultz Choice Reviews 54:12 August 2017 Copyright 2017 American Library Association.