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Beyond pro-life and pro-choice : the changing politics of abortion in Britain /
Tracing the evolution of political discourse on abortion from the 1960s to today, this interdisciplinary text argues that in order to understand the changing pluralities of contemporary abortion debate, it is necessary to move beyond an understanding of abortion politics as characterised by 'pr...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bristol :
Bristol University Press,
2020.
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| Edición: | 1st. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Beyond Pro-Life and Pro-Choice
- Copyright page
- Table of contents
- List of Tables
- List of abbreviations
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction
- Interpreting abortion law
- Where we are now
- Analysing abortion debates
- Structure of the book
- 2 Regulating the Female Body
- Pregnancy, motherhood and feminism
- Abortion and women's status
- The history of abortion law
- Making sense of history
- Complicating feminist accounts
- The significance of abortion
- 3 Passing the Abortion Act 1967
- The origins of the Abortion Act 1967
- Medical opinion before the Act
- The medical reformists
- The medical purists
- The 'social doctor'
- Second Reading
- Committee stage
- Report stage
- Lords
- Women, motherhood and mental health
- Notifications
- After the Act
- Social questions, medical answers
- 4 Feminism Enters the Debate
- Contesting the Abortion Act 1967
- Defending the status quo
- Parliamentary debates
- The Lane Committee, 1971-74
- Feminism in the debate
- Narrating 'acceptable' abortion
- Feminism in Parliament
- Pro-woman language in anti-abortion discourse
- The Irvine Bill, 1969-70
- The White Bill, 1974-75
- The Benyon Bill, 1976-77
- The Corrie Bill, 1979-80
- Female vice and virtue in the debates
- 'Brazen' and 'broken' women
- Abortion 'scandals' and national identity
- Dealing with the 'woman problem'
- 5 Backlash and Appropriation
- The early 1980s: continuity and change
- The Richardson Bill, 1981
- The Robertson Bill, 1982
- Defending the Abortion Act 1967
- Feminism, medicine and female virtue
- Feminist demands
- Medicalization and technicization
- Female virtue and acceptable abortion
- Anti-abortion discourse
- Virtue, vice and 'frivolous' abortion
- Foetal subjects
- Appropriation and backlash
- The 1990s: anti-abortion politics in decline?
- Early medical abortion
- Keeping the debate alive
- Tackling the backlash
- 6 Into the 21st Century
- Prohibition, counselling and cooling off
- Medical purity, progress and a 'right to know'
- Feminists respond
- The Department of Health responds
- The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill 2008
- Report of the Science and Technology Committee
- Anti-abortion arguments
- Feminist arguments
- Northern Ireland
- After the HFE Act 2008
- Pro-choicers on the back foot
- 7 Towards Decriminalization? New Battlegrounds in Abortion Politics
- The changing climate of abortion opinion
- Medical opinion
- Devolution and abortion provision
- Buffer zones
- The decriminalization campaign
- Campaigning for decriminalization
- Campaigning against decriminalization
- In Parliament
- New battlegrounds: sex selection
- The Stop Gendercide campaign
- Defeating the campaign
- New battlegrounds: disability
- A reinvigorated pro-choice politics
- 8 Conclusion
- Abortion rights advocacy in context
- Anti-abortion politics in context
- Interrogating 'choice'