Marianne Githens (ed.)

Abortion Politics

Public Policy in Cross-Cultural Perspective
Herausgeber: Githens, Marianne; Stetson, Dorothy McBride

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Produktbeschreibung

Abortion Politics: Public Policy in Cross Cultural Perspective focuses on current abortion policy and practice in the United States, Canada, Europe and Japan and aims to provide a comprehensive, stimulating and balanced picture of current abortion policy in a cross-cultural perspective. The contributors deal with comparative abortion policy including recent developments in Ireland, Germany and Eastern Europe.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Oktober 1996
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 227mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 336g
• ISBN-13: 9780415912259
• ISBN-10: 0415912253
• Artikelnr.: 21047420

Autorenporträt

Marianne Githens is a professor at Goucher College. Her previous publications include A Portrait of Marginality and Different Roles, Different Voices: Women and Politicsin the United States and Europe. Dorothy McBride Stetson teaches at Florida Atlantic University. Her previous publications include Women's Rights in the USA: PolicyDebates and Gender Role.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I Rhetoric and Reform; Chapter 1 Rhetoric and Symbols in American
Abortion Politics, Laura R. Woliver; Chapter 2 Constitutionalizing
Abortion, Kim Lane Scheppele; Chapter 3 Reproductive Rights and the
Struggle with Change in Eastern Europe, Marianne Githens; Part II The
Reality Factor; Chapter 4 Abortion Policy in the United States and Canada:
Do Institutions Matter?, Donley T. Studlar, Raymond Tatalovich; Chapter 5
Abortion Policy Triads and Women's Rights in Russia, the United States, and
France, Dorothy Mcbride Stetson; Chapter 6 Abortion and Reproductive
Choice: Policy and Politics in Japan, Joyce Gelb; Part III Rhetoric,
Reality, and Rights; Chapter 7 The Stability of Compromise: Abortion
Politics in Western Europe, Joyce Outshoorn; Chapter 8 Ireland and the
European Union: The Impact of Integration and Social Change on Abortion
Policy, Brian Girvin; Part IV Beyond Abortion; Chapter 9 Confronting the
Consequences of Medical Technology: Policy Frontiers in the United States
and France, Jennifer Merchant; Chapter 10 Feminist Perspectives on Abortion
and Reproductive Technologies, Dorothy McBride Stetson;