Transcending Borders: Abortion in the Past and Present

Book Overview

'Every body has its own feminism': Introducing Transcending Borders
Section One: Historical Examinations of Abortion
Abortion, Infanticide and a Return to the Gods: Politics of Pregnancy in Early Modern Japan
Unlocking the Mysterious Trunk: Nineteenth-Century American Criminal Abortion Narratives
'Impossible to get to know these secret means' - Colonial anxiety and the quest for controlling reproduction in 'German East Africa'
A 'grievously sinful attempt to destroy the life which God has given': Abortion, Anglicanism, and Debates about Community Composition in Twentieth-Century Zanzibar
Troubled Women: Abortion and Psychiatry in Sweden in the 1940s and 1950s
Section Two: Abortion Politics
'It is not your personal concern': Challenging Expertise in the Campaign to Legalize Abortion in France
Feminism, Foetocentrism and the Politics of Abortion Choice in 1970s Australia
We're All Feminists Now: How to Pass an Anti-Abortion Policy in Australia

A Provider's Right to Choose: A Legal History
Abortion Politics in a State in Transition: Contesting South Africa's 'Choice Act'
Quiet Contestations of Irish Abortion Law: Abortion Politics in Flux?
Section 3: The Social and Discursive Spaces of Abortion
The Landscape of Unwanted Pregnancy and Abortion in Highland Bolivia, 1982-2010
Settler Colonialism, Native American Motherhood, and the Politics of Terminating Pregnancies
Revelation and Secrecy: Women's Social Networks and the Contraception-Abortion Process in Cameroon
The End of Feminist Abortion Counseling?: Examining Threats to Women's Health
The End of Feminist Abortion Counseling?: Examining Threats to Women's Health

True Threats: Wanted Posters, Stalking, and the First Amendment

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319483986
• ISBN13: 9783319483986
• Release Date: April 2017
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.3"