Gene Burns

The Moral Veto

Framing Contraception, Abortion, and Cultural Pluralism in the United States

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Produktbeschreibung

This 2005 book examines the often surprising history of controversies over contraception and abortion in the United States.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 354
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. September 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 727g
• ISBN-13: 9780521552097
• ISBN-10: 0521552095
• Artikelnr.: 22576534

Autorenporträt

Gene Burns is an award-winning teacher and associate professor of public affairs at James Madison College, of Michigan State University. A sociologist by training, he is the author of The Frontiers of Catholicism: The Politics of Ideology in a Liberal World, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year in 1993. He has written articles on social movements, revolutions, and the politics of religion in the American Journal of Sociology, Theory and Society, Sociology of Religion, and other journals.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Framing contraception within moral worldviews: the early, radical birth control movement
2. The mainstreaming of birth control: a new alliance with eugenics and medicine
3. Dennett's moral worldview and the catholic moral veto: unsuccessful frames for contraception
4. Abortion before controversy: quiet reform within a medical, humanitarian frame
5. Abortion and legislative stalemate: the weakness and strength of the medical, humanitarian frame
6. Looking back: limiting frames, moral vetoes, and cultural Pluralism
Notes
Works cited.