Contested lives : the abortion debate in an American community

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Contested lives : the abortion debate in an American community

Faye D. Ginsburg

University of California Press, c1998

Updated ed. with a new introduction

  • : pbk

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Bibliography: p. 287-306

Includes indexes

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Based on the struggle over a Fargo, North Dakota, abortion clinic, Contested Lives explores one of the central social conflicts of our time. Both wide-ranging and rich in detail, it speaks not simply to the abortion issue but also to the critical role of women's political activism. A new introduction addresses the events of the last decade, which saw the emergence of Operation Rescue and a shift toward more violent, even deadly, forms of anti-abortion protest. Responses to this trend included government legislation, a decline in clinics and doctors offering abortion services, and also the formation of Common Ground, an alliance bringing together activists from both sides to address shared concerns. Ginsburg shows that what may have seemed an ephemeral artifact of "Midwestern feminism" of the 1980s actually foreshadowed unprecedented possibilities for reconciliation in one of the most entrenched conflicts of our times.

Table of Contents

Introduction to the Updated Edition Preface Acknowledgments 1 Introduction Part I: Abortion and the American Body Politic 2 From the Physicians' Campaign to Roe v. Wade 3 The Rise of the Right-to-Life Movement Part II: The Abortion Controversy in a Grass-roots Setting 4 The First Phase of Conflict 5 The Clinic Conflict 6 Interpretive Battlegrounds 7 Angles of Incidence, Angles of Reflection Part III: "Procreation Stories" 8 Interpreting Life Stories 9 The Pro-Choice Narratives 10 The Pro-Life Narratives Part IV: Reconstructing Gender in America 11 La Longue Duree 12 Conclusion Epilogue: Pro-Dialogue Appendix: Female Moral Reform Movements in America Notes Bibliography Index

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