The Changing Voice of the Anti-Abortion Movement : : The Rise of "Pro-Woman" Rhetoric in Canada and the United States / / Paul Saurette, Kelly Gordon.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
• VerfasserIn: Saurette, Paul,; Gordon, Kelly,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2018]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (448 p.) :; 8 figures

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- THE CHANGING VOICE OF THE ANTIABORTION MOVEMENT. The Rise of “Pro-Woman” Rhetoric in Canada and the United States -- 1. Introduction -- Part I: Historicizing the Abortion Debate in North America -- 2. The History of the Abortion Debate in the United States -- 3. The Abortion Debate in the United States after Roe v. Wade -- 4. The History of the Early Abortion Debate in Canada -- 5. The Abortion Debate in Canada: Morgentaler and Beyond -- 6. Intermezzo: The History of the Abortion Debate in North America -- Part II: The Changing Voice of the Contemporary Anti-abortion Movement -- 7. Shifting Strategies: A Little Old, a Lot New, a Bit of Both -- 8. Women Up Front, God Out Back: The Changing Anti-abortion Arguments -- 9. We’re All Progressives Now: Rebranding the Movement -- 10. Anti-abortionism as the New Feminism: Reframing the Position -- 11. From Jezebel to Snow White: Moralizing through Narrativizing -- 12. “Pro-woman” Discourse in the United States -- Part III: Conclusions and Implications -- 13. Theoretical Implications -- 14. Where to Now? Practical Implications for Abortion Rights Advocates -- Acknowledgments -- Appendix A. Glossary of Key Legal and Political Events, Organizations, and Individuals -- Appendix B. Historical Timeline – Abortion Politics in the United Kingdom, Canada, and the United States -- Appendix C. Historical Timeline – Abortion Discourse in Canada and the United States -- References -- Index