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

by Suzanne Staggenborg

Book Overview

In the 1960s a movement led by family planning activists and feminists emerged to challenge state anti-abortion laws, resulting in the landmark 1973 Supreme Court ruling Roe v. Wade, which legalized abortion throughout the U.S. Using interviews with past and present activists and historical records of movement organizations, this book traces the development of the "pro-choice" movement from its origins through the 1980s. The author shows how a small...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195065964
• ISBN13: 9780195065961
• Release Date: July 1991
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.5" x 9.6"

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