About abortion : terminating pregnancy in twenty-first-century America
Título:
About abortion : terminating pregnancy in twenty-first-century America
Autor:
Edición:
Primera edición.
Información de publicación:
Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press , 2017.
copyright 2017.
Descripción física:
xv, 304 páginas : ilustraciones, fotografías en blanco y negro ; 25 x 16 x 3 cm.
Contenido:
1. About abortion -- 2. The law from Roe Forward -- 3. Abortion privacy / Abortion secrecy -- 4. The eye of the storm -- 5. Facing your fetus -- 6. "You had body, you died" -- 7. Sending pregnant teenagers to court -- 8. Fathers and fetuses. What would men do? -- 9. Normalizing abortion.
ISBN:
978067437723
Resumen:
One of the most private decisions a woman can make, abortion is also one of the most contentious topics in American civic life. Protested at rallies and politicized in party platforms, terminating pregnancy is often characterized as a selfish decision by women who put their own interests above those of the fetus. This background of stigma and hostility has stifled women's willingness to talk about abortion, which in turn distorts public and political discussion. To pry open the silence surrounding this public issue, Sanger distinguishes between abortion privacy, a form of nondisclosure based on a woman's desire to control personal information, and abortion secrecy, a woman's defense against the many harms of disclosure. Laws regulating abortion patients and providers treat abortion not as an acceptable medical decision -let alone a right- but as something disreputable, immoral, and chosen by mistake. Exploiting the emotional power of fetal imagery, laws require women to undergo ultrasound, a practice welcomed in wanted pregnancies but commandeered for use against women with unwanted pregnancies. Sanger takes these prejudicial views of women's abortion decisions into the twenty-first century by uncovering new connections between abortion law and American culture and politics. New medical technologies, women's increasing willingness to talk online and off, and the prospect of tighter judicial reins on state legislatures are shaking up the practice of abortion. As talk becomes more transparent and acceptable, women's decisions about whether or not to become mothers will be treated more like those of other adults making significant personal choices
Descripción cubierta:
Cubierta de color negro, al costado izquierdo se aprecia el dibujo en colores de una mujer joven. Título en mitad inferior de la cubierta con letras grandes de color blanco y gris y letras pequeñas de color blanco. Nombre de la autora bajo el título con letras medianas de color gris.
Formato:
Impresión regular
Idioma:
Inglés
Fecha de publicación:
2017
Imagen de cubierta:
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