Contested lives : the abortion debate in an American community

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ginsburg, Faye D., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Abortion--Case studies--United States.

Abortion.

Abortion services--Case studies--United States.

Abortion services.

Pro-life movement--Case studies--United States.

Pro-life movement.

Pro-choice movement--Case studies--United States.

Pro-choice movement.

Women social reformers--Case studies--United States.

Women social reformers.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (359 p.)

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] University of California Press 1998

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Based on the struggle over a Fargo, North Dakota, abortion clinic, Contested Lives explores one of the central social conflicts of our time. Both wide-ranging and rich in detail, it speaks not simply to the abortion issue but also to the critical role of women's political activism.A new introduction addresses the events of the last decade, which saw the emergence of Operation Rescue and a shift toward more violent, even deadly, forms of anti-abortion protest. Responses to this trend included government legislation, a decline in clinics and doctors offering abortion services, and also the formation of Common Ground, an alliance bringing together activists from both sides to address shared concerns. Ginsburg shows that what may have seemed an ephemeral artifact of "Midwestern feminism" of the 1980s actually foreshadowed unprecedented possibilities for reconciliation in one of the most entrenched conflicts of our times.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction to the Updated Edition

Notes

Preface

Acknowledgments

Chapter One. Introduction

Part One. Abortion and the American Body Politic

Chapter Two. From the Physicians' Campaign to Roe v. Wade

Chapter Three. The Rise of the Right-to-Life Movement

Part Two. The Abortion Controversy in a Grass-roots Setting

Chapter Four. The First Phase of Conflict

Chapter Five. The Clinic Conflict

Chapter Six. Interpretive Battlegrounds

Chapter Seven. Angles of Incidence, Angles of Reflection

Part Three "Procreation Stories"

Chapter Eight. Interpreting Life Stories

Chapter Nine. The Pro-Choice Narratives

Chapter Ten. The Pro-Life Narratives

Part Four. Reconstructing Gender in America

Chapter Eleven. La Longue Durée

Chapter Twelve. Conclusion

Epilogue. Pro-Dialogue

Appendix: Female Moral Reform Movements in America

Bibliography

Subject Index

Author Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

0-520-92245-X

0-585-05447-9