Research Catalog

Title

Abortion wars : a half century of struggle, 1950-2000 / edited by Rickie Solinger.

Publication

Berkeley : University of California Press, c1998.

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Details

Additional Authors

Solinger, Rickie, 1947-

Description

xvi, 413 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

Contains eighteen essays that offer a pro-rights perspective on the issue of abortion, examining the topic within the historical framework of the second half of the twentieth century, and discussing the reasons why abortion continues to be one of the most violently contested issues in the United States.

Subject

• 1900-1999
• Women's Rights > history
• Public Policy
• Abortion, Legal > history
• Abortion, Induced > history
• Abortion > Government policy > United States
• Abortion > Law and legislation > United States
• Abortion > United States > History > 20th century
• Pro-life movement > United States
• Women's rights > United States > History > 20th century
• Abortion, Criminal > history
• History, 20th Century
• Women's Rights
• United States

Genre/Form

• Legislation
• History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• (cont.) African-American women and abortion / Loretta J. Ross -- Abortion in the United States--legal but inaccessible / Marlene Gerber Fried -- Rescuing the nation : Operation Rescue and the rise of anti-abortion militance / Faye Ginsburg -- Toward coalition : the Reproductive Health Technologies Project / Marie Bass -- "We call it kindness" : establishing a feminist abortion practice / Elizabeth Karlin -- The twentieth-century gender battle : difficulities in perception / Jane E. Hodgson -- Life on the front lines / Warren M. Hern -- The crisis in abortion provision and pro-choice medical activism in the 1990s / Carole Joffe, Patricia Anderson, and Jody Steinauer -- Regendering the U.S. abortion debate / Alison M. Jaggar -- Psychologies of abortion : implications of a changing context / Sharon Gold-Steinberg and Abigail Stewart -- Disability rights and selective abortion / Marsha Saxton.
• Pt.1. Coercion, resistance, and liberation before Roe v. Wade. Pregnancy and power before Roe v. Wade, 1950-1970 Rickie Solinger -- Beyond safe and legal : the lessons of Jane / Laura Kaplan -- Women versus Conneticut : conducting a statewide hearing on abortions / Amy Kesselman -- Pt. 2. Strategic arena. The rule of law, the rise of violence, and the role of morality : reframing Ammerica's Abortion debate / Marcy J. Wilder -- Legal strategies for Abortion rights in the twenty-first century / Kathryn Kolbert and Andrea Miller -- Electoral politics and abortion : narrowing the message / Wiliam Saletan -- Punishing drug addicts wo have babies : women of color, equality and the right of privacy / Dorothy E. Roberts --
• Pt.3. Physicians and the politics of provision. "We called it kindness" : establishing a feminist abortion practice / Elizabeth Karlin -- The twentieth century gender battle : difficulties in perceptioin / Jane E. Hodgson -- Life on the front lines / Warren M. Hern -- The crises in Abortion provision and pro-choice medical activism in the 1990's / Carole Joffe, Patrica Anderson, and Jody Steinaur -- Pt.5. Reinterpreting abortion rights over time. Regendering the U.S. abortion debate / Alison M. Jaggar -- Psychologies of abortion : implications of a changing context / Sharon Gold-Steinberg and Abigail J. Stewart -- Disability rights and slective abortioin / Marsha Saxton.
• Introduction : abortion politics and history ; Pregnancy and power before Roe v. Wade, 1950-1970 / Rickie Solinger -- Beyond safe and legal : the lessons of Jane / Laura Kaplan -- Women versus Connecticut : conducting a statewide hearing on abortion / Amy Kesselman -- The rule of law, the rise of violence, and the role of morality : reframing America's abortion debate / Marcy J. Wilder -- Legal strategies for abortion rights in the twenty-first century / Kathryn Kolbert and Andrea Miller -- Electoral politics and abortion : narrowing the message / William Saletan -- Punishing drug addicts who have babies : women of color, equality, and the right of privacy / Dorothy E. Roberts --

ISBN

• 0520202562 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0520209524 (pbk.: alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^97012261^

OCLC

• 36582142
• SCSB-9892311

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library