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Overview""The issues she takes on are crucial—not solely the subject areas of reproductive rights and law, or public policy lenses and judicial impact in women's and children's lives, but also the more difficult and fundamental questions of how these 'hot topics' can be approached so as to make the most of the good will of all and the force of free discussion for social learning. . . . she brings a strong, evolving and distinctive perspective to the discussion."" —Emily Fowler Hartigan In Abortion and Dialogue, Ruth Colker argues that the state falsely views the woman and the fetus as having conflicting needs when it intervenes in decisions regarding preganancies. Colker's feminist-theological perspective on reproductive health issues encourages both pro-choice and pro-life advocates to consider how the value of life is implicated in discussions of reproduction. Colker argues that theology can contribute to our understanding if we apply the concepts of love, compassion, and wisdom to problems identified by feminist theory and to actual concrete situations: the impact of abortion regulations on poor female adolescents; the judicial treatment of abortion regulations; state intervention into women's decision-making during pregnancies carried to term. Colker concludes by examining effective and respectful family-planning strategies that truly help women in making reproductive choices. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Ruth ColkerPublisher: Indiana University Press Imprint: Indiana University Press Dimensions: Width: 16.50cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 24.10cm Weight: 0.340kg ISBN: 9780253207388ISBN 10: 025320738 Pages: 180 Publication Date: 22 September 1992 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsACKNOWLEDGMENTS INTRODUCTION: ABORTION ADN DIALOGUE PART ONE FEMINISM AND THEOLOGY CHAPTER ONE Aspirations: An Authentic Self Embedded in Love, Compassion, and Wisdom CHAPTER TWO The Critique: The Problems of Consciousness and Sexual Objectification PART TWO WOMENS' VOICE CHAPTER THREE Testimonials CHAPTER FOUR Empirical Data PART THREE CHAPTER FIVE An Equality Perspective: Anti-Subordination Above ALl CHAPTER SIX Roe v. Wade CHAPTER SEVEN Webster v. Reproductive Health Services: Where's the Feminist Argument? CHAPTER EIGHT MATERNITY CASES AFTERWORD TOWARD CHOICE AND LIFE APPENDIX TABLE OF CASES INDEXReviews... Colker thoughtfully argues that the right to abortion would be better premised on guarantees of equal protection than on the right to privacy.O NPublishers Weekly This is feminist scholarship at its best: interdisciplinary, passionate, personal, and political ... Both controversial and inspiring, this volume is highly recommended ... O NChoice This book could provide the basis for real dialogueNif thatOs what sincere religious spokespeople really want.O NNew Directions for Women ... this book ranks among the best efforts to date to reconcile the seemingly absolute dichotomies in the abortion controversy ... O NCritical Review of Books in Religion This is feminist scholarship at its best: interdisciplinary, passionate, personal, and political. This book is more original than its title suggests. Although other works, e.g., Laurence Tribe's Abortion: The Clash of Absolutes (CH, Dec'90), Faye Ginsberg's Contested Lives: The Abortion Debate in an American Community (1989), Mary Ann Glendon's Abortion and Divorce in Western Law (CH, Feb'88), and Rights Talk (1991), have noted how the absolutism of the abortion debate thwarts the discovery of common ground, none have so sensitively appreciated the concerns of both sides and so eloquently suggested an alternative theory as Colker (Tulane Univ.). She crafts a feminist-theological perspective based on the conception of an authentic self that moves toward the aspirations of love, compassion, and wisdom. When these aspirations are applied to abortion politics, problems within both movements are revealed. How can pro-choicers be so disrepectful of concerns for life? How can pro-lifers ignore the realities of women's lives? Colker then shows a way out of the thicket by utilizing an equality framework guided by the three aspirations. Both controversial and inspiring, this volume is highly recommended for all libraries. -S. BehuniaFebruary 1993 -- Long * Le Moyne College * Author InformationRUTH COLKER, Professor of Law at the University of Pittsburgh, is the author of Abortion and Dialogue: Pro-Choice, Pro-Life, and American Law. She has written on feminist theory and abortion in such journals as the Harvard Law Review, Yale Law Journal, Columbia Law Review, Yale Journal on Law and Feminism, Harvard Women's Law Journal, and Columbia Journal on Gender and Law. In addition to her scholarship, she has served as a legal advocate on behalf of women working with the NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund as well as the ACLU. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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