Pro-Life Feminism: Different Voices

By Gail Grenier-Sweet and Gail-Grenier Sweet

4th printing! A splendid anthology of pro life feminist writing. If you are looking for a book that incorporates a firm pro life position with a goal of justice for women you owe it to yourself to... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0919225225
• ISBN13: 9780919225220
• Release Date: June 1985
• Publisher: Life Cycle Books
• Length: 234 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.5" x 5.5"

Customer Reviews

Great anthology - wish there were a second edition

I first read this book just a couple years after it was published. A recent re-reading makes me wish it were re-published with some newer entries - but it is still a powerful volume...., the historical essays presented here are presented logically and in context. The pioneering feminists' opposition to abortion in its own right (as opposed to generic opposition to unsanitary surgery) is well-documented here. Robin's criticism actually negates her own contention: if these women opposed abortion simply because it was unsanitary, they would have also opposed appendectomies and tonsillectomies. The fact that they didn't, and that they were blatantly clear that their motivation was defense of unborn human lives, is clearly annoying to some.Besides the historical references, the essays by more contemporary feminists are compelling as well. They very simply smash the stereotypes that are so necessary to defense of abortion.

Refreshing view of the abortion issue!

Forget everything you've read -- this amazing spin on the abortion debate will change the way we all think. Everyone from Ken Kesey ("One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest") to two women from NOW who started a feminist group against abortion (!) show in short articles how abortion can be seen as a civil rights issue. Mostly female authors actually separate it from "womens' rights" by framing it as a violent, dehumanizing force akin to the forces which subjugated women (and minorities) whose value was always determined by "wantedness" or level of "humanity" -- kind of a left-wing adoption of a conservative view. Essays on welfare, post-abortion depression, single-issue politics and healthcare are gems of articulate and thoughtful treatment not found anywhere. Essay format makes it easy to take a short look at your leisure, but you won't stop at just one. I heartily recommend it.