The Pro-Choice Movement: Organization and Activism in the Abortion Conflict

by Suzanne Staggenborg

Book Overview

In this highly-praised analysis of the controversial pro-choice movement, Suzanne Staggenborg traces the development of the movement from its origins through the 1980s. She shows how a small group of activists were able to build on the momentum created by other social movements of the 1960s to win their cause--the legalization of abortion in 1973--and argues that professional leadership and formal organizational structures, together with threats from...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195089251
• ISBN13: 9780195089257
• Release Date: March 1994
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"

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