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Author:   Shannon Stettner ,  Katrina Ackerman ,  Kristin Burnett ,  Travis Hay
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint:   Springer International Publishing AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2017
Dimensions:   Width: 14.80cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 21.00cm
Weight:   5.661kg
ISBN:  

9783319483986

ISBN 10:   3319483986
Pages:   344
Publication Date:   05 April 2017
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1. 'Every body has its own feminism': Introducing Transcending Borders.- 2. Abortion, Infanticide and a Return to the Gods: Politics of Pregnancy in Early Modern Japan.- 3. Unlocking the Mysterious Trunk: Nineteenth-Century American Criminal Abortion Narratives.- 4. 'Impossible to get to know these secret means' – Colonial anxiety and the quest for controlling reproduction in 'German East Africa'.- 5. A ‘grievously sinful attempt to destroy the life which God has given’: Abortion, Anglicanism, and Debates about Community Composition in Twentieth-Century Zanzibar.- 6. Troubled Women: Abortion and Psychiatry in Sweden in the 1940s and 1950s.- 7. ‘It is not your personal concern’: Challenging Expertise in the Campaign to Legalize Abortion in France.- 8. Feminism, Foetocentrism and the Politics of Abortion Choice in 1970s Australia.- 9. We’re All Feminists Now: How to Pass an Anti-Abortion Policy in Australia.- 10. A Provider’s Right to Choose: A LegalHistory.- 11. Abortion Politics in a State in Transition: Contesting South Africa’s ‘Choice Act’.- 12. Quiet Contestations of Irish Abortion Law: Abortion Politics in Flux?.- 13. The Landscape of Unwanted Pregnancy and Abortion in Highland Bolivia, 1982-2010.- 14. Settler Colonialism, Native American Motherhood, and the Politics of Terminating Pregnancies.- 15. Revelation and Secrecy: Women’s Social Networks and the Contraception-Abortion Process in Cameroon.- 16. The End of Feminist Abortion Counseling?: Examining Threats to Women’s Health.- 17. True Threats: Wanted Posters, Stalking, and the First Amendment.

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Shannon Stettner is Lecturer of Women’s Studies at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.  Katrina Ackerman is a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada.  Kristin Burnett is Associate Professor of Indigenous Learning and Coordinator of the Social Justice Studies graduate program at Lakehead University, Ontario, Canada. Travis Hay is a doctoral candidate in History at York University, Ontario, Canada. 

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