Abortion
Subtitle: loss and renewal in the search for identity
By: Eva Pattis Zoja ; English translation by Henry Martin.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 1997
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 162
Subjects: Abortion -- Psychological aspects.; Abortion -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Description: Publisher description: The debate on abortion has tended to avoid the psychological significance of an unwanted pregnancy, dominated instead by the strong emotions the subject excites. In this book Eva Pattis Zoja examines the thoughts and feelings that surround the decision to end a pregnancy, through the dreams, diary entries and reports of the women themselves. Abortion proposes the controversial thesis that although contraception is so readily available that the occurrence of unwanted pregnancy should become nil, abortion has now become a rite of passage in womanhood. While acknowledging the painful nature of the subject, the author suggests that this decision to abort as a way to development is one beyond the explanation of modern, enlightened rationalism.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 148-152) and indexes.
Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada.
"First published by RED, Como, Italy in 1955"--T.p. verso.