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Souls, bodies, spirits : the drive to abolish abortion since 1973 / Kerry N. Jacoby.
Van Pelt Library HQ767.5.U5 J324 1998
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jacoby, Kerry N., 1962-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pro-life movement--United States--History.
- Pro-life movement.
- Abortion--United States--History.
- Abortion.
- History.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 230 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 1998.
- Summary:
- A comprehensive social history of the abortion abolition movement from Roe v. Wade onward.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 Abortion and Its Discontents 1
- Chapter 2 In the Beginning: The Abortion Abolition Enterprise as a Catholic Moral Crusade 27
- Chapter 3 One Body: Building Ecumenism in the Moral Crusade 47
- Chapter 4 Into the Lion's Den: The Abortion Abolition Enterprise Becomes a Social Movement 71
- Chapter 5 The Scorn of Men: Actors, Images, and the Public 95
- Chapter 6 The Latter Days: The Abortion Abolition Enterprise and Religious Revival 131
- Chapter 7 Tribulation and the New World Coming: Violence, Checks and Balances, and the Big Picture 157
- Chapter 8 A New Creature: The Future of the Enterprise and a Reinterpretation of Faith-Based Political Action 179
- Appendix The Data and the Survey 199.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [205]-220) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0275960447
- OCLC:
- 37361787
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