Abortion & Birth Control

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781087852232Author L C ChaseFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint Laura C. ChasePublisher Laura C. ChaseWeight(grams) 155g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780520322820Author Rickie SolingerFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint University of California PressPublisher University of California PressWeight(grams)...

Abortion is - and always has been - an arena for contesting power relations between women and men. When in 1973 the Supreme Court made the procedure legal throughout the United States, it seemed that women were at last able to make decisions about their...

For more than a quarter of a century, abortion has been a subject of intense controversy. The activists in the pro-life and pro-choice camps both claim to have public opinion on their side. In this monograph, the authors seek to illuminate the complexity...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578974934Author Michael SpencerFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint Project LifevoicePublisher Project LifevoiceWeight(grams) 313g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780984822652Author Dr N Rosechild-SullivanFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Lifting Consciousness PressPublisher Lifting Consciousness...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780595153633Author Phoebe LeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Writer's Showcase PressPublisher Writer's Showcase PressWeight(grams) 290g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578759135Author Diosha DavisFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Diosha DavisPublisher Diosha DavisWeight(grams) 152g

A young activist reveals that the Pro-Life Movement's real agenda in America is a war on contraception, family-planning and sexual freedom. A pithy polemic bolstered by solid research, intellectual heft, and firsthand reporting, this is a book poised to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781849355261Author Angela HumeFormat PaperbackPage Count 405Imprint AK PressPublisher AK Press

`It is a woman's right. It is the expression of her autonomy to claim uncompromising power over her own body and the determination of her own future. It is overcoming motherhood as a biological destiny.' `Pela Vida das Mulheres' was the chant that...

Until the late 1960s, the authorities on abortion were for the mostpart men-politicians, clergy, lawyers, physicians, all of whomhad an interest in regulating women's bodies. Even today, when wehear women speak publicly about abortion, the voices are...

Examining the changing pluralities of contemporary abortion debate in Britain, this innovative and important book shows why it is necessary to move beyond an understanding of abortion politics as characterised in binary terms by 'pro-choice' versus...

"A remarkable collection of scholarly essays, philosophical discussions, and ethical arguments concerning reproductive choices." Choice It seems as if every week there is a new case involving reproductive technologies that raises provocative, often...

A fierce and galvanizing reminder that resistance is everywhere in the fight for abortion and reproductive justice in the United States.  Fighting Mad is a book about what "reproductive justice" means and what it looks like to fight for it. Editors...

Tiny You tells the story of one of the most successful political movements of the twentieth century: the grassroots campaign against legalized abortion. While Americans have rapidly changed their minds about sex education, pornography, arts funding, gay...

In 1973, the U.S. Supreme Court concluded in Roe v. Wade that the U.S. Constitution protects a woman's decision to terminate her pregnancy. In Doe v. Bolton, a companion decision, the Court found that a state may not unduly burden the exercise of that...

"...a richly textured analysis of medical and lay abortion discourses and practices, artistic representations of the procedure, and of women's, particularly lower-class women's, own perceptions and experiences of abortion. Skilfully using an...

In the United States, egg donation for reproduction and egg donation for research involve the same procedures, the same risks, and the same population of donors-disadvantaged women at the intersections of race and class. Yet cultural attitudes and...

"...a richly textured analysis of medical and lay abortion discourses and practices, artistic representations of the procedure, and of women's, particularly lower-class women's, own perceptions and experiences of abortion. Skilfully using an...

After the revolution of 2011, the electoral victory of the Islamist party 'Ennahdha' allowed previously silenced religious and conservative ideas about women's right to abortion to be expressed. This also allowed healthcare providers in the public sector...

Since 1945, even as European states have achieved ever-greater levels of economic integration, their social policy landscapes have proven remarkably varied. This is particularly true for contentious issues such as abortion, where different political...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781587310607Author Teresa R. WagnerFormat PaperbackImprint St Augustine's PressPublisher St Augustine's PressWeight(grams) 520gDimensions(mm) 248mm * 151mm...

In Abortion Care is Health Care Barbara Baird tells the history of the provision of abortion care in Australia since 1990. Against the backdrop of a reticent public sector Baird describes a system of predominantly private provision, which has excluded...

Representing Abortion analyses how artists, writers, performers, and activists make abortion visible, audible, and palpable within contexts dominated by anti-abortion imagery centred on the fetus and the erasure of the pregnant person, challenging the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807045527Author Michelle ObermanFormat HardbackPage Count 216Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press

"Merle Hoffman has always known that in a democracy, we each have decision-making power over the fate of our own bodies. She is a national hero for us all." -Gloria Steinem In the wake of the Supreme Court overturning Roe V. Wade and a country divided,...

UNDERSTAND THE BIG ISSUE DIVIDING OUR NATION "Every political fight will eventually be an abortion fight," stated The Daily Beast in 2017. Gallup polls confirm that abortion rights versus the right to life remains the most contentious debate in American...

This new and original study by Ligia Castaldi is the first major publication to analyze in detail the abortion laws of the Latin American and Caribbean nations that are parties to the American Convention on Human Rights. Making use of a broad range of...

Originally published in 1986, Abortion and the Private Practice of Medicine was the first book to look at abortion from the perspective of physicians in private practice. Jonathan B. Imber spent two years observing and interviewing all twenty-six of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789241548717Author World Health OrganizationFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint World Health OrganizationPublisher World Health Organization

How can those who seek to protect the "right to life" defend assassination in the name of saving lives? Carol Mason investigates this seeming paradox by examining pro-life literature-both archival material and writings from the front lines of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789241549264Author World Health OrganizationFormat PaperbackPage Count 86Imprint World Health OrganizationPublisher World Health Organization

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781587311550Author Charles E RiceFormat HardbackImprint St. Augustine's PressPublisher St. Augustine's PressWeight(grams) 340g

The 2014 Supreme Court ruling on McCullen v. Coakley striking down a Massachusetts law regulating anti-abortion activism marked the reengagement of the Supreme Court in abortion politics. A throwback to the days of clinic-front protests, the decision...

*Winner of the James S. Donnelly, Sr. Prize 2022* In Ireland, 2018, a constitutional ban that equated the life of a woman to the life of a fertilised embryo was overturned and abortion was finally legalised. This victory for the Irish Repeal movement...

In the face of widespread discrimination against the disabled and a eugenic culture which pathologises disability and crushes diversity, comes a new book which radically challenges the status quo. Defiant Birth: Women Who Resist Medical Eugenics, tells...

After nearly fifty years as settled constitutional law, the federally protected right to an abortion in America is now a thing of the past. The Supreme Court's overturning of Roe v. Wade has left Americans without a guaranteed right to access...

Abortion Care as Moral Work brings together the voices of abortion providers, abortion counselors, clinic owners, neonatologists, bioethicists, and historians to discuss how and why providing abortion care is moral work. The collection offers voices not...

What are the contemporary issues in abortion politics globally? What factors explain variations in access to abortion between and within different countries? This text provides a transnationally-focused, interdisciplinary analysis of trends in...