Abortion and Woman's Choice: The State, Sexuality, and Reproductive Freedom (Longman Series in Feminist Theory)

Politics & Social Sciences

Petchesky, Rosalind Pollack

Social Sciences

Northeastern Univ Pr

Abortion and Woman's Choice: The State, Sexuality, and Reproductive Freedom

Women's Studies

A holistic understanding of abortion from a feminist perspective, including the history of its practice and state policies to contain it; the social, economic, and cultural conditions under which women utilize it; and the legal, moral, and political battles that surround it.

Abortion And Woman's Choice: The State, Sexuality, and Reproductive Freedom (New England Series On Feminist Theory)

Northeastern University Press

"The best book I have read on the politics of reproduction. It raises complex theoretical and strategic questions, in a clear and accessible way, and represents an important breakthrough in feminist thinking." - Leslie Doyal, author of What Makes Women Sick This prize-winning study is the definitive work on the politics of abortion and fertility. Rosalind Pollack Petchesky provides overwhelming evidence against the anti-abortion forces and in the process takes up issues of teenage sexuality, the politics of eugenics, and women's relationship to medical technology. The book's continuing relevance is a tribute to the author and a sad indictment of contemporary politics.

Abortion and Woman's Choice: The State, Sexuality and Reproductive Freedom

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Global Prescriptions: Gendering Health and Human Rights

This is a critical yet optimistic analysis of the role of transnational women's groups in setting the agendas for women's health in international and national settings. The book reviews a decade of women's participation in UN conferences, transnational networks, national advocacy efforts and sexual and reproductive health provision, assessing both their strengths and weaknesses. It critiques the Cairo, Beijing and Copenhagen conference documents and World Bank, WHO and health sector reform policies. It also offers case studies of national-level reform and advocacy efforts and appraises the controversy concerning TRIPS, trade, and essential AIDS drugs. That controversy, Petchesky argues, starkly illuminates the "collision course" of transnational corporate and global trade agendas with the struggle for gender, racial and regional equity and the human right to health.

Zed Books

Global Prescriptions is a critical yet optimistic analysis of the role of transnational women's groups in setting the agendas for women's health in international and national settings. The book reviews a decade of women's participation in UN conferences, transnational networks, national advocacy efforts and sexual and reproductive health provision, assessing both their strengths and weaknesses. It critiques the Cairo, Beijing and Copenhagen conference documents and World Bank, WHO and health sector reform policies. It also offers case studies of national-level reform and advocacy efforts and appraises the controversy concerning TRIPS, trade, and essential AIDS drugs. The author takes into account the formidable political and ideological forces confronting global justice movements and also offers a sobering reassessment of transnational women's NGOs themselves and such problems as 'NGOization', fragmentation and donor-dependency. Petchesky argues that the power of women's transnational coalitions is only as great as their organic connection with grassroots social movements.

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Abortion and Woman's Choice: The State, Sexuality, and Reproductive Freedom (Longman Series in Feminist Theory)

Abortion and Woman's Choice: The State, Sexuality, and Reproductive Freedom

Abortion And Woman's Choice: The State, Sexuality, and Reproductive Freedom (New England Series On Feminist Theory)

Abortion and Woman's Choice: The State, Sexuality and Reproductive Freedom

Global Prescriptions: Gendering Health and Human Rights

Global Prescriptions: Gendering Health and Human Rights