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Author Simonds, Wendy, 1962-

Title Abortion at work : ideology and practice in a feminist clinic / Wendy Simonds
Published New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©1996

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Description 1 online resource (x, 262 pages)
Contents Feminist work: health care provision and identity -- Feminist abortion practice: getting graphic -- Anti-feminism personified: encounters with the enemy -- Feminist workplace? Examining contradictions in institutional ideology -- Purging the enemy within: feminist approach racism -- Feminism and (f)utility: assessing the future of procreative freedom
Summary How do feminist identity and abortion politics intersect? Specifically, what does feminism mean to women working to provide feminist health care and abortion services in the late 1980s and early 1990s? What are the ideological consequences and emotional tolls of doing such work in a hostile socio-cultural environment? Can feminism and bureaucracy coexist productively? How do feminists confront the anti-feminist opposition, from anti-abortion protesters outside to racism within feminist organizations?
These are the questions that drive Wendy Simonds's Abortion at Work. Simonds documents the ways in which workers at a feminist clinic construct compelling feminist visions, and also watch their ideals fall short in practice. Simonds interprets these women's narratives to get at how abortion works on feminism, and to show what feminism can gain by rethinking abortion utilizing these activists' terms. In thoroughly engaging prose, Simonds frames her analysis with a moving account of her own personal understanding of the issues
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-256) and index
Notes English
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Subject Abortion -- Social aspects -- United States -- Case studies
Abortion services -- United States -- Employees -- Case studies
Feminism -- United States -- Case studies
Abortion.
Women's health services.
Feminism.
Social ecology.
Abortion, Induced
Women's Health Services
Feminism
Social Environment
feminism.
human ecology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Abortion & Birth Control.
Women's rights
Women
Violence
Surgery, Operative
Sociology
Social sciences
Social psychology
Social problems
Social control
Race
Prejudices
Politics, Practical
Philosophy
Organization
Obstetrics -- Surgery
National health services
Morphogenesis
Medical personnel
Medical care
Humanities
Humanism
Human rights
Health services administration
Ethnic groups
Employment (Economic theory)
Emotions
Embryology
Criminology
Crime
Attitude (Psychology)
African Americans
Women's health services
Social ecology
Abortion
Abortion services -- Employees
Abortion -- Social aspects
Feminism
Schwangerschaftsabbruch
Feminismus
Sociology & Social History.
Social Sciences.
Family & Marriage.
SUBJECT United States https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014481
Subject United States
USA
Genre/Form Case studies
Form Electronic book
LC no. 95019055
ISBN 0585026653
9780585026657
9780813522449
0813522447
9780813522456
0813522455
081355490X
9780813554907