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

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

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 corr...

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

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