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Without apology : : writings on abortion in Canada / / edited by Shannon Stettner.

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Without Apology gathers the voices of activists, feminists, and scholars as well as abortion providers and clinic support staff alongside the stories of women whose experience with abortion is more personal. With the particular aim of moving beyond the polarizing rhetoric that has characterized the...

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Edited by Shannon Stettner
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Stettner, Shannon,
Place / Publishing House:Edmonton, [Canada] : : AU Press,, 2016.
©2016
Year of Publication:2016
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (366 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Without Apology: An Introduction
  • A Brief History of Abortion in Canada
  • PART ONE: SPEAKING FROM EXPERIENCE
  • An Abortion Palimpsest: Writing the Hidden Stories of Our Bodies
  • T.A.
  • But I Kept All These Things, and Pondered Them in My Heart
  • Keep It Small
  • A Bad Law and a Bold Woman
  • A Lonely Ride
  • [untitled]
  • PART TWO: ABORTION RIGHTS ACTIVISM
  • Reproductive Freedom: The Ontario Coalition for Abortion Clinics and the Campaign to Overturn the Federal Abortion Law
  • Handmaids on the Hill: Defending Our Rights One Womb at a Time
  • Breaking the Silence Through Portrait and Story: Arts4Choice
  • "We Can Get There Faster If We All Move Together": The Birth and Evolution of a Reproductive Justice Activist
  • Waves of Change in Prince Edward Island: Opening the Dialogue on Abortion Access
  • PART THREE: CHALLENGING OPPOSING POSITIONS
  • Blinded by the Right: My Past as an Anti-abortion Activist
  • One Life Change Leads to Another: My Evolving View of Abortion
  • Pro-Choice for God's Sake
  • Pro-choice with No "Buts": Three Commentaries
  • Expanding the Reproductive Justice Lexicon: A Case for the Label Pro-abortion
  • Same as It Ever Was: Anti-Choice Extremism and the "Third Way"
  • Women over Ideology
  • PART FOUR: PRACTITIONERS AND CLINIC SUPPORT
  • Dissolving Fear, Fostering Trust: Lessons from Life in Abortion Care
  • "Do you think I will go to hell for this?"
  • Countering Shame with Compassion: The Role of the Abortion Counsellor
  • Women Judging Women: Whose Reasons Are "Good Enough"? Whose Choice Is OK?
  • Therapeutic Abortion: A Nonnegotiable Women's Right
  • On Becoming an Abortion Provider: An Interview
  • PART FIVE: SITES OF STRUGGLE
  • The Myth of Reproductive Choice: A Call for Radical Change.
  • Sex-Selective Abortion and the Politics of Race in Multicultural Canada
  • The Public Pregnancy: How the Fetal Debut and the Public Health Paradigm Affect Pregnancy Practice
  • A Harm-Reduction Approach to Abortion
  • The Unfinished Revolution
  • List of Contributors.

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