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Transcending Borders : Abortion in the Past and Present /

This multidisciplinary volume investigates different abortion and reproductive practices across time, space, geography, national boundaries, and cultures. The authors specialize in the reproductive politics of Australia, Bolivia, Cameroon, France, German East Africa, Ireland, Japan, Sweden, South Af...

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Corporate Authors: SpringerLink Online service
Group Author: Stettner, Shannon; Ackerman, Katrina; Burnett, Kristin; Hay, Travis
Published: Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
Publisher Address: Cham :
Publication Dates: 2017.
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
Subjects:
Social sciences
Social structure
Social inequality
Sociology
Human body > Social aspects
Sex Psychology
Gender expression
Gender identity
Gender Studies
Social Structure, Social Inequality
Sociology of the Body
Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48399-3
Summary: This multidisciplinary volume investigates different abortion and reproductive practices across time, space, geography, national boundaries, and cultures. The authors specialize in the reproductive politics of Australia, Bolivia, Cameroon, France, German East Africa, Ireland, Japan, Sweden, South Africa, the United States, and Zanzibar, with historical focuses on the pre-modern era, nineteenth and twentieth centuries, as well as the present day. This timely work complicates the many histories and ongoing politics of abortion by exploring the conditions in which women have been forced to make
Carrier Form: 1 online resource(XIII,297pages)
ISBN: 9783319483993
CLC: C923
Contents: 1. 'Every body has its own feminism': Introducing Transcending Borders -- 2. Abortion, Infanticide and a Return to the Gods: Politics of Pregnancy in Early Modern Japan -- 3. Unlocking the Mysterious Trunk: Nineteenth-Century American Criminal Abortion Narratives -- 4. 'Impossible to get to know these secret means' Colonial anxiety and the quest for controlling reproduction in 'German East Africa' -- 5. A grievously sinful attempt to destroy the life which God has given : Abortion, Anglicanism, and Debates about Community Composition in Twentieth-Century Zanzibar -- 6. Troubled Women: Aborti

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