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Transcending borders : abortion in the past and present
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"This multidisciplinary volume investigates different abortion and reproductive practices across time, space, geography, national boundaries, and cultures. The authors specialize in the reproductiv...
"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 ... 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."--
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- Creator
- Shannon Stettner, Katrina Ackerman, Kristin Burnett, Travis Hay, editors
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- English
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- Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2017]
- ©2017
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- xiii, 344 pages ; 22 cm
- ISBNs
- 9783319483993, 9783319483986, 3319839322, 9783319839325, 3319483994, 3319483986
- OCLC
- ocn959596439
- "Every body has its own feminism" : introducing transcending borders / Katrina Ackerman, Kristin Burnett, Travis Hay and Shannon Stettner -- Abortion, infanticide, and a return to the gods : politics of pregnancy in early modern Japan / Eiko Saeki -- Unlocking the mysterious trunk : nineteenth-century American criminal abortion narratives / Tanfer Emin Tunç -- "Impossible to get to know these secret means" : colonial anxiety and the quest for controlling reproduction in "German East Africa" / Daniel Bendix -- A "grievously sinful attempt to destroy the life which God has given" : abortion, Anglicanism, and debates about community composition in twentieth-century Zanzibar / Andreana C. Prichard -- Troubled women : abortion and psychiatry in Sweden in the 1940s and 1950s / Lena Lennerhed -- "It is not your personal concern" : challenging expertise in the campaign to legalize abortion in France / Jennifer L. Sweatman -- Feminism, foetocentrisim, and the politics of abortion choice in 1970s Australia / Erica Millar -- We are all feminists now : how to pass an anti-abortion law in Australia / Kate Gleeson -- A provider's right to choose : a legal history / Mary Ziegler -- Abortion politics in a state in transition : contesting South Africa's 'Choice Act' / Rebecca Hodes -- Quiet contestations of Irish abortion law : abortion politics in flux? / Joanna Mishtal -- The landscape of unwanted pregnancy and abortion in Highland Bolivia, 1982-2010 / Natalie L. Kimball -- Settler colonialism, Native American motherhood, and the politics of terminating pregnancies / Brianna Theobald -- Revelation and secrecy : women's social networks and the contraception-abortion process in Cameroon / Pamela Feldman-Savelsberg and Sylvie Schuster -- The end of feminist abortion counseling? : examining threats to women's health / Elyse Ona Singer and Bayla Ostrach -- True threats : wanted posters, stalking, and the First Amendment / Mark Dorosin
Subjects
- Abortion -- History -- Cross-cultural studies.
- Abortion -- Law and legislation.
- Abortion -- Political aspects.
- Abortion -- Moral and ethical aspects.
- Reproductive rights -- Cross-cultural studies.
- Abortion, Induced.
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- Abortion, Legal.
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- Reproductive Rights.
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- Cross-Cultural Comparison.
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