Marianne Githens (ed.)

Abortion Politics

Public Policy in Cross-Cultural Perspective
Herausgeber: Githens, Marianne; Stetson, Dorothy McBride

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Produktbeschreibung

Abortion Politics focuses on current abortion policy and practice in the United States, Canada, Europe and Japan and aims to provide a comprehensive, stimulating and balanced picture of current abortion policy in a cross-cultural perspective. The contributors deal with comparative abortion policy including recent developments in Ireland, Germany and Eastern Europe. Joyce Gelb, Brian Girvin, Jennifer Merchant, Joyce Outshoorn, Kim Lane Schepple, Donley T. Studlar, Raymond Tatalocich and Laura Woliver.

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Abortion Politics: Public Policy in Cross Cultural Perspective focuses on current abortion policy and practice in the United States, Canada, Europe and Japan and aims to provide a comprehensive, stimulating and balanced picture of current abortion policy in a cross-cultural perspective. The contributors deal with comparative abortion policy including recent developments in Ireland, Germany and Eastern Europe.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Oktober 1996
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 518g
• ISBN-13: 9780415912242
• ISBN-10: 0415912245
• Artikelnr.: 25685042

Autorenporträt

Marianne Githens is a professor at Goucher College. Her previous publications include A Portrait of Marginality and Different Roles, Different Voices: Women and Politicsin the United States and Europe. Dorothy McBride Stetson teaches at Florida Atlantic University. Her previous publications include Women's Rights in the USA: PolicyDebates and Gender Role.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I Rhetoric and Reform; Chapter 1 Rhetoric and Symbols in American
Abortion Politics, Laura R. Woliver; Chapter 2 Constitutionalizing
Abortion, Kim Lane Scheppele; Chapter 3 Reproductive Rights and the
Struggle with Change in Eastern Europe, Marianne Githens; Part II The
Reality Factor; Chapter 4 Abortion Policy in the United States and Canada:
Do Institutions Matter?, Donley T. Studlar, Raymond Tatalovich; Chapter 5
Abortion Policy Triads and Women's Rights in Russia, the United States, and
France, Dorothy Mcbride Stetson; Chapter 6 Abortion and Reproductive
Choice: Policy and Politics in Japan, Joyce Gelb; Part III Rhetoric,
Reality, and Rights; Chapter 7 The Stability of Compromise: Abortion
Politics in Western Europe, Joyce Outshoorn; Chapter 8 Ireland and the
European Union: The Impact of Integration and Social Change on Abortion
Policy, Brian Girvin; Part IV Beyond Abortion; Chapter 9 Confronting the
Consequences of Medical Technology: Policy Frontiers in the United States
and France, Jennifer Merchant; Chapter 10 Feminist Perspectives on Abortion
and Reproductive Technologies, Dorothy McBride Stetson;