Abortion: History, Politics, and Reproductive Justice after Morgentaler - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0774835745 ISBN 13 : 9780774835749

Editeur : University of British Columbia Press, 2018

Synopsis

When Henry Morgentaler, Canada's best-known abortion rights advocate, died in 2013, activists and scholars began to reassess the state of abortion in this country. In Abortion, some of the foremost researchers in Canada challenge current thinking by revealing the discrepancy between what people are experiencing on the ground and what people believe the law to be after the 1988 Morgentaler decision.

Grouped into four themes – History, Experience, Politics, and Reproductive Justice – these essays showcase new theoretical frameworks and approaches from law, history, medicine, women's studies, and political science as they document the diversity of abortion experiences across the country, from those of Indigenous women in the pre-Morgentaler era to a lack of access in the age of so-called decriminalization.

Together, the contributors make a case for shifting the debate from abortion rights to reproductive justice and caution against focusing on "choice" or medicalization without understanding the broader context of why and when people seek out abortions.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Shannon Stettner teaches in the Department of Women's Studies at the University of Waterloo. Kristin Burnett is an associate professor in the Department of Indigenous Learning and coordinator of the new graduate program in Social Justice Studies at Lakehead University. Travis Hay is a doctoral candidate in the Department of History at York University.

Contributors: Katrina Rose Ackerman, Rebecca Beausaert, Lori A. Brown, Frances E. Chapman, Marion Doull, Erika Dyck, Shoshanna Ehrlich, Kelly Gordon, Rachael Johnstone, Tracy Penny Light, Colleen MacQuarrie, Evelyne Morrissette, Beth Palmer, Jen Rinaldi, Laura Salamanca, Paul Saurette, Christabelle Sethna, Caitlin Scott, and Sarah Wiebe.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of British Columbia Press
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0774835745
• ISBN 13: 9780774835749
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 384
• Éditeur: Stettner Shannon, Burnett Kristin, Hay Travis
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