Description |
x, 340 pages ; 24 cm |
Contents |
1. Introduction -- 2. Interpretive Codes of Legal and Social Discourse -- 3. The Social Organization of Reproductive Labour -- 4. The Medicalization and Professionalization of Reproduction -- 5. The Contemporary Legal Code -- 6. Legal Choice and Medical Access in North America -- 7. Reproductive Consciousness and a Reproductive Code -- 8. Therapeutic Abortion Committee Practices: Reproducing Medical 'Subjects' and Immoral Women -- 9. Assessing Liberty and Welfare Rights Status -- 10. Legal Rationality, Medical Objectivity, and Patriarchal Logic -- 11. The Struggle for Choice and Access -- 12. OCAC Strategies: Mediating the Contradictions of Sex and Class -- 13. Integrating Personal Experience and Collective Action -- 14. Conclusion: The Contradictions |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [307]-320) and index |
Subject |
Abortion -- Law and legislation -- Canada.
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Abortion -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Canada.
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Abortion -- Canada.
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LC no. |
96197013 |
ISBN |
080202971X (bound : acid-free paper) |
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0802077412 (paperback: acid-free paper) |
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