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1 online resource |
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Introduction -- Part I: Historicizing the Abortion Debate in North America -- The History of the Abortion Debate in the United States -- The Abortion Debate in the United States Post Roe v. Wade -- The History of The Abortion Debate in Canada -- The Abortion Debate in Canada: Morgentaler and Beyond -- Intermezzo: The History of the Abortion Debate in North America -- Part II: The Changing Voice of Canada's Contemporary Anti-Abortion Movement -- Shifting Strategies: A Little Old, A Lot of New, A Bit of Both -- Women Up Front, God Out Back: The Changing Anti-Abortion Arguments -- We're All Progressives Now: Rebranding the Movement -- Anti-Abortionism as the New Feminism: Reframing the Position -- From Jezebel to Snow White: Moralizing Through Narrativizing -- Part III: Comparisons, Conclusions, Implications -- Pro-Woman' Discourse in the United States -- Theoretical Implications -- Where to Now? Practical Implications For Abortion Rights Advocates -- Appendix A: Glossary of Key Legal and Political Events, Organizations and Individuals -- Appendix B: Historical Timeline -- Abortion Politics in UK, Canada and US -- Appendix C: Historical Timeline -- Abortion Discourse in Canada and US |
| Summary |
"When journalists, academics, and politicians describe the North American anti-abortion movement, they often describe a campaign that is male-dominated, aggressive, and even violent in its tactics, religious in motivation, anti-women in tone, and fetal-centric in arguments and rhetoric. Are they correct? In The Changing Voice of the Anti-Abortion Movement, Paul Saurette and Kelly Gordon suggest that the reality is far more complicated, particularly in Canada. Today, anti-abortion activism increasingly presents itself as "pro-women": using female spokespersons, adopting medical and scientific language to claim that abortion harms women, and employing a wide range of more subtle framing and narrative rhetorical tactics that use traditionally progressive themes to present the anti-abortion position as more feminist than pro-choice feminism. Following a succinct but comprehensive overview of the two-hundred year history of North American debate and legislation on abortion, Saurette and Gordon present the results of their systematic, five-year quantitative and qualitative discourse analysis, supplemented by extensive first-person observations, and outline the implications that flow from these findings. Their discoveries are a challenge to our current assumptions about the abortion debate today, and their conclusions will be compelling for both scholars and activists alike."-- Provided by publisher |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Pro-life movement -- Canada -- History
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Pro-life movement -- United States -- History
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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LAW -- General.
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Pro-life movement
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Canada
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Gordon, Kelly, 1984- author
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| ISBN |
9781442668751 |
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144266875X |
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