Contested Lives: The Abortion Debate in an American Community, Updated edition - Softcover

Ginsburg, Faye D. D.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0520217357 ISBN 13: 9780520217355

Verlag: University of California Press, 1998

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Book by Ginsburg Faye D

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Críticas:

"Sensitive and remarkably balanced. . . . Ginsburg's book implicitly challenges the view that the two movements--pro-choice and anti-abortion, or feminist and anti-feminist--are simply ideological opposites, one arising in hostile reaction to the other. It leads us to suspect strongly that . . . the two movements have common roots in anxieties widely shared by women in late-twentieth-century America. . . . Excellent."--Barbara Ehrenreich, "The New Republic

Reseña del editor:

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.

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• Verlag: University of California Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0520217357
• ISBN 13: 9780520217355
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 356