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The changing voice of the anti-abortion movement : the rise of "pro-woman" rhetoric in Canada and the United States / Paul Saurette and Kelly Gordon.
LIBRA HQ767.5.C3 S29 2015
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Saurette, Paul, author.
- Gordon, Kelly, 1984- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pro-life movement--Canada--History.
- Pro-life movement.
- Pro-life movement--United States--History.
- History.
- Canada.
- United States.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 429 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2015].
- Summary:
- "When journalists, academics, and politicians describe the North American anti-abortion movement, they often describe a campaign that is male-dominated, aggressive, and even violent in its tactics, religious in motivation, anti-women in tone, and fetal-centric in arguments and rhetoric. Are they correct? In The Changing Voice of the Anti-Abortion Movement, Paul Saurette and Kelly Gordon suggest that the reality is far more complicated, particularly in Canada. Today, anti-abortion activism increasingly presents itself as "pro-women": using female spokespersons, adopting medical and scientific language to claim that abortion harms women, and employing a wide range of more subtle framing and narrative rhetorical tactics that use traditionally progressive themes to present the anti-abortion position as more feminist than pro-choice feminism. Following a succinct but comprehensive overview of the two-hundred year history of North American debate and legislation on abortion, Saurette and Gordon present the results of their systematic, five-year quantitative and qualitative discourse analysis, supplemented by extensive first-person observations, and outline the implications that flow from these findings. Their discoveries are a challenge to our current assumptions about the abortion debate today, and their conclusions will be compelling for both scholars and activists alike."-- Provided by publisher.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781442647619
- 1442647612
- 9781442615694
- 1442615699
- OCLC:
- 930542611
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