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A fragmented landscape : abortion governance and protest logics in Europe / edited by Silvia De Zordo, Joanna Mishtal, and Lorena Anton.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Protest, culture and society.
- Protest, Culture and Society
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Abortion--Government policy--Europe.
- Abortion.
- Abortion--Moral and ethical aspects--Europe.
- Pro-choice movement--Europe.
- Pro-choice movement.
- Pro-life movement--Europe.
- Pro-life movement.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (304 pages) : illustrations, tables.
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; Oxford, [England] : Berghahn Books, 2017.
- Summary:
- Since World War II, abortion policies have remained remarkably varied across European nations, with struggles over abortion rights at the forefront of national politics. This volume analyses European abortion governance and explores how social movements, political groups, and individuals use protests and resistance to influence abortion policy. Drawing on case studies from Italy, Spain, Norway, Poland, Romania, Russia, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the European Union, it analyses the strategies and discourses of groups seeking to liberalise or restrict reproductive rights. It also illuminates the ways that reproductive rights politics intersect with demographic anxieties, as well as the rising nationalisms and xenophobia related to austerity policies, mass migration and the recent terrorist attacks in Europe.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- Part I Pro-abortion Rights Activism, Movements, Strategies, and Protest Logics
- Chapter 1 Legal and Political Discourses on Women’s Right to Abortion
- Chapter 2 Freeing Abortion in Sweden
- Chapter 3 Women’s Liberation and the ‘Right to Choose’ Struggling for Abortion in the United Kingdom and Switzerland
- Part II Anti-abortion Rights Activism, Movements, Strategies, and Protest Logics
- Chapter 4 Contesting Abortion Rights in Contemporary Italy: Discourses and Practices of Pro-life Activism
- Chapter 5 Innocence and Demographic Crisis: Transposing Post-abortion Syndrome into a Russian Orthodox Key
- Chapter 6 Still a Woman’s Right? Feminist and Other Discourses in Belgium’s Abortion Struggles
- Part III Health Professionals’/Providers’ Involvement in the Pro- or Anti-abortion Rights Debate and Access to Services
- Chapter 7 ‘Good Doctors Do Not Object’ Obstetricians-Gynaecologists’ Perspectives on Conscientious Objection to Abortion Care and their Engagement with Pro-abortion Rights Protests in Italy
- Chapter 8 Women Rights or ‘Unborn’ Rights? Laws and Loopholes in Madrid’s Public Healthcare Services’ Abortion Provision to Migrant Women
- Chapter 9 One Step Forward and Two Steps Back: Accessing Abortion in Norway
- Part IV Pronatalism, Nationalism, and Resistance in Abortion Politics and Access to Abortion Services
- Chapter 10 For the Good of the Nation: Pronatalism and Abortion Ban during Ceauşescu’s Romania
- Chapter 11 Quietly ‘Beating the System’ The Logics of Protest and Resistance under the Polish Abortion Ban
- Chapter 12 Abortion Governance in the New Northern Ireland
- Afterword. Reproductive Governance meets European Abortion Politics: The Challenge of Getting the Gaze Right
- Acknowledgements
- Index
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-80758-855-6
- 1-78920-071-7
- OCLC:
- 980767060
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