A Fragmented Landscape : : Abortion Governance and Protest Logics in Europe /

A Fragmented Landscape : : Abortion Governance and Protest Logics in Europe / / ed. by Silvia De Zordo, Joanna Mishtal, Lorena Anton.

Since World War II, abortion policies have remained remarkably varied across European nations, with struggles over abortion rights at the forefront of national politics. This volume analyses European abortion governance and explores how social movements, political groups, and individuals use protest...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2016
MitwirkendeR:
Anton, Lorena,
Bessett, Danielle,
Celis, Karen,
Coene, Gily,
De Zordo, Silvia,
Horgan, Goretti,
Linders, Annulla,
Luehrmann, Sonja,
Løkeland, Mette,
Martín, Beatriz Aragón,
Mattalucci, Claudia,
Mishtal, Joanna,
Morgan, Lynn M.,
Schmitter, Leena,
Schulz, Kristina,
Whitaker, Robin,
Zampas, Christina,
HerausgeberIn:
Anton, Lorena,
Mishtal, Joanna,
Zordo, Silvia De,
Place / Publishing House:New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2016]
©2016
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:Protest, Culture & Society ; 20
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Physical Description:1 online resource (304 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Part I Pro-abortion Rights Activism, Movements, Strategies, and Protest Logics
  • Chapter 1 Legal and Political Discourses on Women’s Right to Abortion
  • Chapter 2 Freeing Abortion in Sweden
  • Chapter 3 Women’s Liberation and the ‘Right to Choose’ Struggling for Abortion in the United Kingdom and Switzerland
  • Part II Anti-abortion Rights Activism, Movements, Strategies, and Protest Logics
  • Chapter 4 Contesting Abortion Rights in Contemporary Italy: Discourses and Practices of Pro-life Activism
  • Chapter 5 Innocence and Demographic Crisis: Transposing Post-abortion Syndrome into a Russian Orthodox Key
  • Chapter 6 Still a Woman’s Right? Feminist and Other Discourses in Belgium’s Abortion Struggles
  • Part III Health Professionals’/Providers’ Involvement in the Pro- or Anti-abortion Rights Debate and Access to Services
  • Chapter 7 ‘Good Doctors Do Not Object’ Obstetricians-Gynaecologists’ Perspectives on Conscientious Objection to Abortion Care and their Engagement with Pro-abortion Rights Protests in Italy
  • Chapter 8 Women Rights or ‘Unborn’ Rights? Laws and Loopholes in Madrid’s Public Healthcare Services’ Abortion Provision to Migrant Women
  • Chapter 9 One Step Forward and Two Steps Back: Accessing Abortion in Norway
  • Part IV Pronatalism, Nationalism, and Resistance in Abortion Politics and Access to Abortion Services
  • Chapter 10 For the Good of the Nation: Pronatalism and Abortion Ban during Ceauşescu’s Romania
  • Chapter 11 Quietly ‘Beating the System’ The Logics of Protest and Resistance under the Polish Abortion Ban
  • Chapter 12 Abortion Governance in the New Northern Ireland
  • Afterword. Reproductive Governance meets European Abortion Politics: The Challenge of Getting the Gaze Right
  • Acknowledgements
  • Index

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