The Changing Voice of the Anti-Abortion Movement: The Rise of "pro-Woman" Rhetoric in Canada and the United States - Softcover

Saurette, Paul; Gordon, Kelly

 
9781442615694: The Changing Voice of the Anti-Abortion Movement: The Rise of "pro-Woman" Rhetoric in Canada and the United States
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1442615699 ISBN 13: 9781442615694
Verlag: PAPERBACKSHOP UK IMPORT, 2016

Inhaltsangabe

When journalists, academics, and politicians describe the North American anti-abortion movement, they often describe a campaign that is male-dominated, aggressive, and even violent in its tactics, religious in motivation, anti-women in tone, and fetal-centric in arguments and rhetoric. Are they correct?

In The Changing Voice of the Anti-Abortion Movement, Paul Saurette and Kelly Gordon suggest that the reality is far more complicated, particularly in Canada. Today, anti-abortion activism increasingly presents itself as "pro-women": using female spokespersons, adopting medical and scientific language to claim that abortion harms women, and employing a wide range of more subtle framing and narrative rhetorical tactics that use traditionally progressive themes to present the anti-abortion position as more feminist than pro-choice feminism.

Following a succinct but comprehensive overview of the two-hundred year history of North American debate and legislation on abortion, Saurette and Gordon present the results of their systematic, five-year quantitative and qualitative discourse analysis, supplemented by extensive first-person observations, and outline the implications that flow from these findings. Their discoveries are a challenge to our current assumptions about the abortion debate today, and their conclusions will be compelling for both scholars and activists alike.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Paul Saurette is a professor in the School of Political Studies at the University of Ottawa. Kelly Gordon is a PhD candidate in the School of Political Studies at the University of Ottawa.

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Verlag
PAPERBACKSHOP UK IMPORT
Erscheinungsdatum
2016
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1442615699
ISBN 13 
9781442615694
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
456
Kontakt zum Hersteller
Mare Nostrum Group B.V.
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Breda
4831 GR
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