Transcending Borders (eBook)

Abortion in the Past and Present

Shannon Stettner, Katrina Ackerman, Kristin Burnett, Travis Hay (Herausgeber)

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2017 | 1st ed. 2017
XIII, 344 Seiten
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-48399-3 (ISBN)

Infos

This multidisciplinary volume investigates different abortion and reproductive practices across time, space, geography, national boundaries, and cultures. The authors specialize in the reproductive politics of Australia, Bolivia, Cameroon, France, 'German East Africa,' Ireland, Japan, Sweden, South Africa, the United States, and Zanzibar, with historical focuses on the pre-modern era, nineteenth and twentieth centuries, as well as the present day. This timely work complicates the many histories and ongoing politics of abortion by exploring the conditions in which women have been forced to make these life-altering decisions.  

Shannon Stettner is Lecturer of Women's Studies at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. 

 

Katrina Ackerman is a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. 

 

Kristin Burnett is Associate Professor of Indigenous Learning and Coordinator of the Social Justice Studies graduate program at Lakehead University, Ontario, Canada.

 

Travis Hay is a doctoral candidate in History at York University, Ontario, Canada. 

Inhalt

‘Every body has its own feminism’: Introducing Transcending BordersSection One: Historical Examinations of Abortion Abortion, Infanticide and a Return to the Gods: Politics of Pregnancy in Early Modern Japan Unlocking the Mysterious Trunk: Nineteenth-Century American Criminal Abortion Narratives'Impossible to get to know these secret means' – Colonial anxiety and the quest for controlling reproduction in 'German East Africa' A ‘grievously sinful attempt to destroy the life which God has given’: Abortion, Anglicanism, and Debates about Community Composition in Twentieth-Century ZanzibarTroubled Women: Abortion and Psychiatry in Sweden in the 1940s and 1950sSection Two: Abortion Politics‘It is not your personal concern’: Challenging Expertise in the Campaign to Legalize Abortion in FranceFeminism, Foetocentrism and the Politics of Abortion Choice in 1970s AustraliaWe’re All Feminists Now: How to Pass an Anti-Abortion Policy in AustraliaA Provider’s Right to Choose: A Legal HistoryAbortion Politics in a State in Transition: Contesting South Africa’s ‘Choice Act’Quiet Contestations of Irish Abortion Law: Abortion Politics in Flux?Section 3: The Social and Discursive Spaces of AbortionThe Landscape of Unwanted Pregnancy and Abortion in Highland Bolivia, 1982-2010Settler Colonialism, Native American Motherhood, and the Politics of Terminating PregnanciesRevelation and Secrecy: Women’s Social Networks and the Contraception-Abortion Process in CameroonThe End of Feminist Abortion Counseling?: Examining Threats to Women’s HealthThe End of Feminist Abortion Counseling?: Examining Threats to Women’s HealthTrue Threats: Wanted Posters, Stalking, and the First Amendment

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 27.3.2017
• Zusatzinfo: XIII, 344 p.
• Verlagsort: Cham
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• Schlagworte: Abortion politics • activism • Feminism • Gender Studies • Reproductive choice • Reproductive rights • Women's lived experience • women's studies
• ISBN-10: 3-319-48399-4 / 3319483994
• ISBN-13: 978-3-319-48399-3 / 9783319483993