Abortion rights backlash : the struggle for democracy in Europe and the Americas /
"Reproductive self-determination is a defining human rights issue of our time. Yet reproductive rights are regressing even in developed democracies where women have secured public political participation and rising workplace equity. This book argues that abortion rights backlash represents a pa...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2025]
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | "Reproductive self-determination is a defining human rights issue of our time. Yet reproductive rights are regressing even in developed democracies where women have secured public political participation and rising workplace equity. This book argues that abortion rights backlash represents a patriarchal political struggle for control of the private sphere-not lagging tradition. Gender rights backlash is driven by rising forms of nationalism reacting to unequal globalization-but contested by feminist movements that reclaim democracy. Extending the feminist principle that "the personal is political" to the global level, this study compares divergent outcomes in the parallel cases of Ireland vs. Poland, Argentina vs. Brazil, and California vs. Texas during the critical juncture of 2018-2022. Abortion rights backlash shows how the fate of reproductive rights-and the millions of lives that depend on them-is shaped by and reshapes democratic freedoms, representation, and institutions. This rich historical account of reproductive rights struggles on three continents transforms our understanding of human rights, the quest for collective identity, the contradictions of modernization, the changing role of religion, democratic backsliding, and the global dynamics of social movements. The study of the struggle for reproductive rights in a changing world yields important lessons for the quest for gender justice worldwide"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 276 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0197800491 9780197800492 0197800475 9780197800485 0197800483 9780197800478 |