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Opposition & intimidation : the abortion wars & strategies of political harassment / Alesha E. Doan.
LIBRA HQ767.5.U5 D63 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Doan, Alesha E., 1972-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pro-life movement--United States.
- Pro-life movement.
- Harassment.
- United States.
- Abortion--United States.
- Abortion.
- Harassment--United States.
- Political violence--United States.
- Political violence.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 215 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Other Title:
- Opposition and intimidation
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2007]
- Summary:
- The abortion fight has long been a crucible of political tactics, with both sides employing strategies ranging from litigation to civil disobedience to outright violence. Anti-abortion activists have arguably been more tactically innovative than their pro-choice peers. Opposition and Intimidation looks at how their use of political harassment fits-or doesn't-with more conventional political efforts in the struggle over abortion. Alesha Doan's insightful interviews and observations powerfully portray anti-abortion activists' relationship to the objects of their protest. Her portrait is augmented by thorough quantitative analysis of harassment's role within the movement's multitiered strategy-a strategy that Doan shows has forced a decline in the availability and popularity of abortions. Using her unique study of the anti-abortion movement as a model, Doan extends her findings to propose a novel and valuable theory of the new politics of harassment.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 Political Protest or Political Harassment?: Social Movements, Morality Politics, and Abortion 1
- Chapter 2 Shifting Contexts: The History of Abortion in America 38
- Chapter 3 The Rise of the Pro-Life Movement Post Roe v. Wade 70
- Chapter 4 Creating a New Game: The Scope of Anti-Abortion Violence and Harassing Tactics 105
- Chapter 5 Does Harassment Pay Off?: Assessing the Success of Anti-Abortion Tactics 130
- Chapter 6 The Changing Face of the Abortion Debate 155
- Appendix A Survey Questions 171
- Appendix B Data Sources 173.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-205) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0472099752
- 9780472099757
- 0472069756
- 9780472069750
- OCLC:
- 70630336
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