The Global Politics Of Abortion
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The Global Politics Of Abortion
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Author : Jodi L. Jacobson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1990
The Global Politics Of Abortion written by Jodi L. Jacobson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Law categories.
Locating the issue of abortion in a global public policy context, with the array of public health, human rights, and social questions that are implicated, is the aim of this paper. Abortion laws around the world have been liberalized since the 1950s, with a resultant decrease in abortion-related mortality among women. The proportion of the world's population, governed by laws that permit abortion on medical or broader social and economic grounds, is 75 percent (nearly 4 billion people). In addition to women living in those countries that have resisted liberalization of their abortion laws, many women have restricted access to abortion, even those in countries in which abortion is technically legal. There are a number of reasons for this, including a lack of government or public commitment to provide or fund services, lack of trained specialists, administrative roadblocks, a woman's ability to pay, and a lack of truthful information about legal rights and services. Abortion rates from countries around the world are examined and discussed in terms of the varying demographic and social realities. The large number of maternal deaths due to abortion that still occur is not due to a deficiency in technology, but a deficiency in the value placed on women's lives. The numerous roadblocks to safe abortion services drive women to seek illegal or clandestine abortions that greatly endanger their lives. The debate surrounding abortion has been too often portrayed as a conflict between black and white hues. The debate needs to take place in a larger context, complete with public health, family planning, and human rights concerns. Equality of political rights for women, and likely the lives of many, hinges on political decisions regarding abortion. (DB)
Reimagining Global Abortion Politics
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Author : Bloomer, Fiona
language : en
Publisher: Policy Press
Release Date : 2020-06-10
Reimagining Global Abortion Politics written by Bloomer, Fiona and has been published by Policy Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-06-10 with Social Science categories.
What are the contemporary issues in abortion politics globally? What factors explain variations in access to abortion between and within different countries? This text provides a transnationally-focused, interdisciplinary analysis of trends in abortion politics using case studies from around the Global North and South. It considers how societal influences, such as religion, nationalism and culture, impact abortion law and access. It explores the impact of international human rights norms, the increasing displacement of people due to conflict and crisis and the role of activists on law reform and access. The book concludes by considering the future of abortion politics through the more holistic lens of reproductive justice. Utilising a unique interdisciplinary approach, this book provides a major contribution to the knowledge base on abortion politics globally. It provides an accessible, informative and engaging text for academics, policy makers and readers interested in abortion politics.
Reproductive Rights And Wrongs
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Author : Betsy Hartmann
language : en
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Release Date : 2016-11-21
Reproductive Rights And Wrongs written by Betsy Hartmann and has been published by Haymarket Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-21 with Political Science categories.
“Those involved in women’s health issues, Third World studies, and economic development should find food for thought” (Kirkus Reviews). This is an updated edition of the “influential study” (Publishers Weekly) of issues surrounding childbirth and the history of population control programs. Challenging conventional wisdom about overpopulation, and uncovering the deeper roots of poverty, environmental degradation, and gender inequalities, the author uses data and vivid case studies to explore how population control programs came to be promoted by powerful governments, foundations, and international agencies as an instrument of Cold War development and security policy. Mainly targeting poor women, these programs were designed to drive down birth rates as rapidly and cheaply as possible, with coercion often a matter of course. In the war on population growth, birth control was deployed as a weapon, rather than a tool of reproductive choice. Threaded throughout is the story of how international women’s health activists fought to reform population control and promote a new agenda of sexual and reproductive health and rights for all. While their efforts bore fruit, obstacles remain. On one side is the anti-choice movement that wants to deny women access not only to abortion but to most methods of contraception. On the other is a resurgent, well-funded population control lobby that often obscures its motives with the language of women’s empowerment. Despite declining birth rates worldwide—average global family size is now 2.5 children—overpopulation alarm is on the rise, tied now to the threats of climate change and terrorism. Reproductive Rights and Wrongs reveals how these developments are rooted in the longer history and politics of population control. In this book, a new generation of readers will find knowledge and inspiration for the ongoing struggle to achieve reproductive rights and social, environmental, and gender justice.
Conceiving The New World Order
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Author : Faye D. Ginsburg
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1995-07-31
Conceiving The New World Order written by Faye D. Ginsburg and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995-07-31 with Social Science categories.
This volume provides an investigation of the dynamics of reproduction. Using reproduction as an entry point the authors examine how cultures are produced, contested, and transformed as people imagine their collective future in the creation of the next generation.
Abortion In Asia
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Author : Andrea Whittaker
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2010-07-01
Abortion In Asia written by Andrea Whittaker and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-07-01 with Social Science categories.
The issue of abortion forces a confrontation with the effects of poverty and economic inequalities, local moral worlds, and the cultural and social perceptions of the female body, gender, and reproduction. Based on extensive original field research, this provocative collection presents case studies from Thailand, Cambodia, Burma, Vietnam, Bangladesh, Indonesia, and India. It includes powerful insight into the conditions and hard choices faced by women and the circumstances surrounding unplanned pregnancies. It explores the connections among poverty, violence, barriers to access, and the politics and strategies involved in abortion law reform. The contributors analyze these issues within the broader conflicts surrounding women's status, gender roles, religion, nationalism and modernity, as well as the global politics of reproductive health.
Reimagining Global Abortion Politics
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Author : Fiona Bloomer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018
Reimagining Global Abortion Politics written by Fiona Bloomer and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with Abortion categories.
This book considers how societal influences, such as religion, nationalism and culture, impact abortion law and access. It provides an accessible, informative and engaging text for academics, policy makers and readers interested in abortion politics.
Abortion Politics
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Author : Ziad Munson
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2018-05-21
Abortion Politics written by Ziad Munson and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-05-21 with Social Science categories.
Abortion has remained one of the most volatile and polarizing issues in the United States for over four decades. Americans are more divided today than ever over abortion, and this debate colors the political, economic, and social dynamics of the country. This book provides a balanced, clear-eyed overview of the abortion debate, including the perspectives of both the pro-life and pro-choice movements. It covers the history of the debate from colonial times to the present, the mobilization of mass movements around the issue, the ways it is understood by ordinary Americans, the impact it has had on US political development, and the differences between the abortion conflict in the US and the rest of the world. Throughout these discussions, Ziad Munson demonstrates how the meaning of abortion has shifted to reflect the changing anxieties and cultural divides which it has come to represent. Abortion Politics is an invaluable companion for exploring the abortion issue and what it has to say about American society, as well as the dramatic changes in public understanding of women’s rights, medicine, religion, and partisanship.
Troubling Motherhood
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Author : Lucy B. Hall
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2020-01-28
Troubling Motherhood written by Lucy B. Hall and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-01-28 with Human reproduction categories.
"In global politics, women's bodies are policed, objectified, surveilled, and feared, with particular attention paid to both their met or unmet procreative potential. By illuminating and interrogating representations and narratives of maternity, this volume shows how practices of global politics shape and are shaped by the gendered norms and institutions that underpin motherhood. The guiding theoretical idea in this volume is that motherhood matters in global politics. However - as with so many political phenomena coded 'female' in the binary cognitive architectures of the West - the diverse ways in which performances and practices of motherhood are constituted by and are constitutive of other dimensions of political life they are frequently obscured or assumed to be of little interest to scholars, policy makers, and practitioners. Featuring innovative and diverse interrogations of the politics of motherhood as an institution, this collection shows that maternality is troubled, complicated, and heterogeneous in global politics and thus performances and practices of motherhood warrant closer and more sustained scrutiny"--
Reproductive Rights And Wrongs
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Author : Betsy Hartmann
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Release Date : 1987-01-01
Reproductive Rights And Wrongs written by Betsy Hartmann and has been published by HarperCollins Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987-01-01 with Birth control categories.
Looks at government population policies in the U.S., China, and South America, discusses family planning, contraception, and sterilization, and examines the political, economic, and social consequences.
Abortion And Nation
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Author : Lisa Smyth
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2005
Abortion And Nation written by Lisa Smyth and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Law categories.
Situating the abortion question in the global context of human rights politics, as well as international social movements, Lisa Smyth analyses the formation and transformation of abortion politics in Ireland from the early 1980s to the present day. She considers whether or not the shifting connections between morality, rights and nationhood promise a new era of gender equality in the context of nation-state citizenship.