The Changing Voice of the Anti-abortion Movement: The Rise of "Pro-Woman" Rhetoric in Canada and the United States - Couverture souple

Saurette, Paul; Gordon, Kelly

 
9781442615694: The Changing Voice of the Anti-abortion Movement: The Rise of "Pro-Woman" Rhetoric in Canada and the United States
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ISBN 10 : 1442615699 ISBN 13 : 9781442615694
Editeur : University of Toronto Press, 2016

Synopsis

When journalists, academics, and politicians describe the North American anti-abortion movement, they often describe a campaign that is male-dominated, aggressive, and even violent in its tactics, religious in motivation, anti-women in tone, and fetal-centric in arguments and rhetoric. Are they correct? In The Changing Voice of the Anti-Abortion Movement, Paul Saurette and Kelly Gordon suggest that the reality is far more complicated, particularly in Canada. Today, anti-abortion activism increasingly presents itself as "pro-women": using female spokespersons, adopting medical and scientific language to claim that abortion harms women, and employing a wide range of more subtle framing and narrative rhetorical tactics that use traditionally progressive themes to present the anti-abortion position as more feminist than pro-choice feminism. Following a succinct but comprehensive overview of the two-hundred year history of North American debate and legislation on abortion, Saurette and Gordon present the results of their systematic, five-year quantitative and qualitative discourse analysis, supplemented by extensive first-person observations, and outline the implications that flow from these findings. Their discoveries are a challenge to our current assumptions about the abortion debate today, and their conclusions will be compelling for both scholars and activists alike.

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À propos de l'auteur

Paul Saurette is a professor in the School of Political Studies at the University of Ottawa. Kelly Gordon is a PhD candidate in the School of Political Studies at the University of Ottawa.

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Éditeur
University of Toronto Press
Date d'édition
2016
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1442615699
ISBN 13 
9781442615694
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
456
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
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ISBN 10 :  1442647612 ISBN 13 :  9781442647619
Editeur : University of Toronto Press, 2016
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