Overview

Since World War II, abortion policies have remained remarkably varied across European nations, with struggles over abortion rights at the forefront of national politics. This volume analyses European abortion governance and explores how social movements, political groups, and individuals use protests and resistance to influence abortion policy. Drawing on case studies from Italy, Spain, Norway, Poland, Romania, Russia, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the European Union, it analyses the strategies and discourses of groups seeking to liberalise or restrict reproductive rights. It also illuminates the ways that reproductive rights politics intersect with demographic anxieties, as well as the rising nationalisms and xenophobia related to austerity policies, mass migration and the recent terrorist attacks in Europe. 

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Author:   Silvia De Zordo ,  Joanna Mishtal ,  Lorena Anton
Publisher:   Berghahn Books
Imprint:   Berghahn Books
Volume:   20
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.386kg
ISBN:  

9781785334276

ISBN 10:   1785334271
Pages:   304
Publication Date:   01 December 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction Silvia De Zordo, Joanna Mishtal, and Lorena Anton PART I: PRO-ABORTION RIGHTS ACTIVISM, MOVEMENTS, STRATEGIES, AND PROTEST LOGICS Chapter 1. Legal and Political Discourses on Women’s Right to Abortion Christina Zampas Chapter 2. Freeing Abortion in Sweden Annulla Linders and Danielle Bessett Chapter 3. Women’s Liberation and the ‘Right to choose’: Struggling for Abortion in the United Kingdom and Switzerland Kristina Schulz and Leena Schmitter PART  II: ANTI-ABORTION RIGHTS ACTIVISM, MOVEMENTS, STRATEGIES, AND PROTEST LOGICS Chapter 4. Contesting Abortion Rights in Contemporary Italy: Discourses and Practices of Pro-life Activism Claudia Mattalucci Chapter 5. Innocence and Demographic Crisis: Transposing Post-Abortion Syndrome into a Russian Orthodox Key Sonja Luehrmann Chapter 6. Still a Woman’s Right? Feminist and Other Discourses in Belgium’s Abortion Struggles Karen Celis and Gily Coene PART III: HEALTH PROFESSIONALS'/PROVIDERS' INVOLVEMENT IN THE PRO- OR ANTI-ABORTION RIGHTS DEBATE AND ACCESS TO SERVICES Chapter 7. ‘Good doctors do not object’: Obstetricians-Gynaecolosists’ Perspectives on Conscientious Objection to Abortion Care and their Engagement with Pro-abortion Rights Protests in Italy Silvia de Zordo Chapter 8. Women Rights or Unborn Rights? Laws and Loopholes In Madrid’s Public Healthcare Services Abortion Provision to Migrant Women Beatriz Martín Aragón Chapter 9. One Step Forward and Two Steps Back: Accessing Abortion in Norway Mette Løkeland PART IV: PRONATALISM, NATIONALISM, AND RESISTANCE IN ABORTION POLITICS AND ACCESS TO ABORTION SERVICES Chapter 10. For the Good of the Nation: Pronatalism and Abortion Ban during Ceauşescu’s Romania Lorena Anton Chapter 11. Quietly ‘Beating the System’: The Logics of Protest and Resistance under the Polish Abortion Ban Joanna Mishtal Chapter 12. Abortion Governance in the New Northern Ireland Robin Whitaker and Goretti Horgan Afterword: Reproductive Governance meets European Abortion Politics: The Challenge of Getting the Gaze Right Lynn M. Morgan Bibliography Acknowledgments Index

Reviews

This edited volume does not only offer gender historians a rich source, but should also be of interest to historians of social movements and legal historians who have to face the fact that an expected process like 'liberalization' is created by economic and material factors as well as subterranean techniques of subjectivization and does not reveal any direction but presents a constellation that can switch position any time. * H-Soz-Kult This is an extremely important contribution to the literature on the policies and politics surrounding reproductive rights. It covers a range of historical developments and national contexts while developing multiple overarching themes in an accessible manner. * Jennifer Merchant, Universite Paris II

This is an extremely important contribution to the literature on the policies and politics surrounding reproductive rights. It covers a range of historical developments and national contexts while developing multiple overarching themes in an accessible manner. * Jennifer Merchant, Universite Paris II

Author Information

Silvia De Zordo is a Senior Researcher at the University of Barcelona (UB), Department of Anthropology. Her research interests encompass contraception, abortion and conscientious objection in Latin America and Europe. She has recently been awarded an ERC Starting Grant to study the impact on women of barriers to legal abortion in Europe. Her recent publications include Reproduction and Biopolitics: Ethnographies of Governance, ""Irrationality"" and Resistance (ed. with Milena Marchesi), published by Routledge in 2014.

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