Women against abortion : inside the largest moral reform movement of the twentieth century / Karissa Haugeberg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Haugeberg, Karissa, 1978- author.

Contributor:

Lachs-Adler Family Endowed Fund for Collection Development.

Series:

Women, gender, and sexuality in American history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pro-life movement--United States--History--20th century.

Pro-life movement.

Abortion--Moral and ethical aspects--United States--History--20th century.

Abortion.

Women--Political activity--United States--History--20th century.

Women.

Abortion--Moral and ethical aspects.

Women--Political activity.

History.

United States.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

viii, 220 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2017]

Summary:

Women from remarkably diverse religious, social, and political backgrounds made up the rank-and-file of anti-abortion activism. Empowered by-yet in many cases scared of-the changes wrought by feminism, they founded grassroots groups, developed now-familiar strategies and tactics, and gave voice to the movement's moral and political dimensions. Drawing on oral histories and interviews with prominent figures, Karissa Haugeberg examines American women's fight against abortion. Beginning in the 1960s, she looks at Marjory Mecklenburg's attempt to shift the attention of anti-abortion leaders from the rights of fetuses to the needs of pregnant women. Moving forward she traces the grassroots work of Catholic women, including Juli Loesch and Joan Andrews, and their encounters with the influx of evangelicals into the movement. She also looks at the activism of evangelical Protestant Shelley Shannon, a prominent pro-life extremist of the 1990s. Throughout, Haugeberg explores important questions such as the ways people fused religious conviction with partisan politics, activists' rationalizations for lethal violence, and how women claimed space within an unshakably patriarchal movement. A balanced treatment of an explosive topic, Women against Abortion is an overdue portrait of the foot soldiers behind a potent American cause. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction

The emergence of crisis pregnancy centers

The invention of postabortion syndrome

Feminist Catholic women's grassroots antiabortion activism

Women and the rescue movement

Women and lethal violence in the antiabortion movement

Epilogue: the legacies of women's work in the antiabortion movement.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Lachs-Adler Family Endowed Fund for Collection Development.

Other Format:

Online version: Haugeberg, Karissa, 1978- Women against abortion.

ISBN:

9780252040962

0252040961

9780252082467

025208246X

OCLC:

962242636