Rosalind Pollack Petchesky

Abortion and Woman's Choice

The State, Sexuality and Reproductive Freedom

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The definitive text on the politics of abortion and fertility

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Produktdetails

• Feminist Classics
• Verlag: Verso Books
• Seitenzahl: 448
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. März 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 132mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 352g
• ISBN-13: 9781804294833
• ISBN-10: 1804294837
• Artikelnr.: 68294549

Autorenporträt

Rosalind Pollack Petchesky

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Zillah Eisenstein
Abortion Again? Preface to the 2024 Edition
Foreword to the British Edition
Preface
Introduction: Beyond ‘‘A Woman’s Right to Choose’’—Feminist Ideas about
Reproductive Rights
Controlling Our Bodies / The Social Relations of Reproduction /
Reproductive Politics, Past and Future
PART I Fertility Control in Theory and History
1. Fertility, Gender, and Class
The Role of Technology / Malthusian Ideology and Bourgeois Culture / Birth
Control in the Bourgeois Family / Class Divisions, Motherhood, and
Fertility Control among the Poor / The Place of Abortion
2. Abortion and the State: Nineteenth-Century Criminalization
Falling Birthrates and Rising Abortions / The Medical Attack / The Eugenics
Movement and Sterilization / Abortion, Sterilization, and the
Socialist-Feminist Birth Control Movement
3. Abortion and the State: Twentieth-Century Legalization
Falling Birthrates and Rising Abortions in the 1960s and 1970s / Population
Control and the Legalization of Abortion / The Role of Popular Organizing:
Feminists and Libertarians
PART II Abortion Practice in the 1970s
4. The Social and Economic Conditions of Women Who Get Abortions
Recent Trends in Abortion Practice / Class and Race Differences in
Resolving Nonmarital Pregnancies / Abortion Access for Poor Women
5. Considering the Alternatives: The Problems of Contraception
The Politics of Contraception / The Inadequacies of Contraception /
Abortion and Contraception—The Necessary Link / The Failure of
institutional ‘‘Delivery Systems’’
6. Abortion and Heterosexual Culture: The Teenage Question
Defining Sexuality—The Role of Abortion / The Rise in Teenage Sex and
Pregnancy—A Revised View / Continuities in Heterosexual Culture / Grids of
Conflict and Sources of Change
PART III Sexual Politics in the 1980s
7. The Antiabortion Movement and the Rise of the New Right
Launching the Neoconservative State / The Organizational Base: Churches and
Reproductive Politics / The Ideological Message: Reprivatizing Sexuality
and ‘‘Preserving the Family’’
8. Protecting Family Integrity: The Rightward Drift in the Courts
‘‘Medical Necessity’’ versus Women’s Autonomy: Roe v. Wade / Privacy Rights
versus Social Justice: Medicaid Funding / Sexual Freedom versus ‘‘Authority
in Their Own Household’’: Parental Notification
9. Morality and Personhood: A Feminist Perspective
Fetuses and Persons / Toward a Feminist-Humanist Concept of Personhood /
Fetal Politics and False Dilemmas
10. Women’s Consciousness and the Abortion Decision
Doing and Believing—The Morality of Praxis / Maternal Practice and
Reproductive Consciousness
Conclusion: The Feminist Movement and the Conditions of Reproductive
Freedom
Index