How the Pro-Choice Movement Saved America: Freedom, Politics, and the War on Sex - Couverture souple

Page, Christina

 
9780465054909: How the Pro-Choice Movement Saved America: Freedom, Politics, and the War on Sex
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0465054900 ISBN 13 : 9780465054909
Editeur : Basic Books, 2006

Synopsis

A pithy polemic bolstered by solid research, intellectual heft, and firsthand reporting, this is a book poised to change the debate over reproductive rights in this country wholesale. As activist and writer Cristina Page shows, the gains made by birth-control advocates (historically) and pro-choice organizations (currently) have formed the bedrock of freedoms few Americans would choose to live without. Now, not only is the future of legal abortion far from guaranteed, in many parts of the country ready access to many forms of contraception is in jeopardy as well. And that development, Page argues, should have everyone, regardless of moral or political persuasion, deeply concerned. For these basic freedoms are not just for the freewheeling gals of "Sex and the City," but are central to the lives of working mothers and fathers from Phoenix to Duluth, churchgoers and nonbelievers alike. Page crystallizes the thoughts and attitudes of a generation of women and men whose voices are seldom heard in the political arena. How the Pro-Choice Movement Saved America is the first book to address the positive transformation our society has undergone because of our ability to plan when and if to have children. It also exposes the anti-choice movement's far-reaching-and dangerous-agenda. Fresh, bold, and stocked with counterintuitive arguments, this is a book bound to form the basis for heated conversations nationwide.

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À propos de l?auteur

Cristina Page is Vice President of the Institute for Reproductive Health Access of NARAL Pro-Choice New York. She lives with her husband and son in New York City.

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Éditeur
Basic Books
Date d'édition
2006
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0465054900
ISBN 13 
9780465054909
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
256
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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