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OverviewSadly no less relevant today than when it was first published, this prize-winning study is the definitive text on the politics of abortion and fertility. Drawing on a wealth of material, Petchesky provides overwhelming evidence against the anti-abortion forces and also takes up issues of teenage sexuality, the politics of eugenics, and women's relationship to medical technology. Petchesky deftly weaves together the history of the practice of abortion and state policies to contain it; the social, economic, and cultural conditions under which women utilize it; and the legal, moral, and political battles that surround it. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Rosalind Pollack Petchesky , Zillah EisensteinPublisher: Verso Books Imprint: Verso Books Dimensions: Width: 12.90cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 19.80cm Weight: 0.600kg ISBN: 9781804294833ISBN 10: 1804294837 Pages: 448 Publication Date: 05 March 2024 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsForeword by Zillah Eisenstein Abortion Again? Preface to the 2024 Edition Foreword to the British Edition Preface Introduction: Beyond ''A Woman's Right to Choose''-Feminist Ideas about Reproductive Rights Controlling Our Bodies / The Social Relations of Reproduction / Reproductive Politics, Past and Future PART I Fertility Control in Theory and History 1. Fertility, Gender, and Class The Role of Technology / Malthusian Ideology and Bourgeois Culture / Birth Control in the Bourgeois Family / Class Divisions, Motherhood, and Fertility Control among the Poor / The Place of Abortion 2. Abortion and the State: Nineteenth-Century Criminalization Falling Birthrates and Rising Abortions / The Medical Attack / The Eugenics Movement and Sterilization / Abortion, Sterilization, and the Socialist-Feminist Birth Control Movement 3. Abortion and the State: Twentieth-Century Legalization Falling Birthrates and Rising Abortions in the 1960s and 1970s / Population Control and the Legalization of Abortion / The Role of Popular Organizing: Feminists and Libertarians PART II Abortion Practice in the 1970s 4. The Social and Economic Conditions of Women Who Get Abortions Recent Trends in Abortion Practice / Class and Race Differences in Resolving Nonmarital Pregnancies / Abortion Access for Poor Women 5. Considering the Alternatives: The Problems of Contraception The Politics of Contraception / The Inadequacies of Contraception / Abortion and Contraception-The Necessary Link / The Failure of institutional ''Delivery Systems'' 6. Abortion and Heterosexual Culture: The Teenage Question Defining Sexuality-The Role of Abortion / The Rise in Teenage Sex and Pregnancy-A Revised View / Continuities in Heterosexual Culture / Grids of Conflict and Sources of Change PART III Sexual Politics in the 1980s 7. The Antiabortion Movement and the Rise of the New Right Launching the Neoconservative State / The Organizational Base: Churches and Reproductive Politics / The Ideological Message: Reprivatizing Sexuality and ''Preserving the Family'' 8. Protecting Family Integrity: The Rightward Drift in the Courts ''Medical Necessity'' versus Women's Autonomy: Roe v. Wade / Privacy Rights versus Social Justice: Medicaid Funding / Sexual Freedom versus ''Authority in Their Own Household'': Parental Notification 9. Morality and Personhood: A Feminist Perspective Fetuses and Persons / Toward a Feminist-Humanist Concept of Personhood / Fetal Politics and False Dilemmas 10. Women's Consciousness and the Abortion Decision Doing and Believing-The Morality of Praxis / Maternal Practice and Reproductive Consciousness Conclusion: The Feminist Movement and the Conditions of Reproductive Freedom IndexReviewsThis is an important contribution to the debate over reproduction, and to political thought. -- Sheila Rowbotham This is the best book I have read on the politics of reproduction. It raises complex theoretical and strategic questions, in a clear and accessible way, and represents an important breakthrough in feminist thinking. -- Leslie Doyal, author of <i>What Makes Women Sick</i> Abortion and Woman's Choice is a major contribution to feminist theory and politics. Petchecksy's analysis of abortion and the broader issues of reproductive rights succeeds brilliantly in combining scholarly rigour with political analysis. She draws on a wealth of material from sociology, social history, law, ethics, demography and biomedical technology to provide an analysis of issues which are critical for women, and her analysis of a socialist-feminist politics of reproductive freedom goes way beyond the simplistic notions of rights and freedom which are common on both sides of the Atlantic. -- Veronica Beechey, author of <i>Unequal Work</i> Author InformationRosalind Petchesky is a political scientist and a leading theorist on international reproductive rights. Petchesky is a Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Hunter College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She is the author of The Individual’s Rights and International Organization and Global Prescriptions: Gendering Health and Human Rights. In addition to her research contributions, she initiated and coordinates the International Reproductive Rights Research Action Group (IRRRAG) in its work of assessing, across cultures, women’s own views of their reproductive rights. She is also involved with the International Working Group on Sexuality and Social Policy in coordinating a multicountry, multisite comparative study of national and international policies affecting sexuality and sexual rights. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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