Transcending Borders
Subtitle: Abortion in the Past and Present
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Mar 28, 2017
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9783319483986
Description: "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...work complicates the many histories and ongoing politics of abortion by exploring the conditions in which women have been forced to make these life-altering decisions."--
Notes: Source title: Transcending Borders: Abortion in the Past and Present