Abortion politics, women's movements, and the democratic state
Subtitle: a comparative study of state feminism
By: edited by Dorothy McBride Stetson
Contributors: Stetson, Dorothy M
Series: Gender and politics
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 328
Subjects: Abortion -- Political aspects; Abortion -- Government policy; Abortion -- Law and legislation; Feminism -- Government policy; Feminist theory; Women and democracy; Women in politics
Description: "Containing the results of a cross-national research project on abortion politics in eleven democratic states (between the 1960s and 2000), this volume marks major progress in abortion research. It develops a comprehensive research design to examine whether or not women's policy agencies (institutional groups intended to improve the status of women) have functioned as necessary and effective allies of women's movements. It explores their efforts to gain access to power arenas and secure abortion laws that coincide with feminist goals. Indeed, these findings constitute a rigorous application of comparative methodology to assess explanations from social movement and democratic theory pertaining to variations in state feminism and movement success."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [297]-322) and index
Table of contents: title: Introduction: abortion, women's movements, and democratic politics / Dorothy McBride Stetson; title: State feminism and policy debates on abortion in Austria / Regina Köpl; title: The abortion debates in Belgium 1974-1990 / Karen Celis; title: Of rights and power: Canada's federal abortion policy 1969-1991 / Melissa Haussman; title: Gendering the abortion debate: the French case / Jean C. Robinson; title: Abortion debates in Germany / Lynn Kamenitsa; title: Women's movements' defence of legal abortion in Great Britain / Dorothy McBride Stetson; title: Abortion debates in Ireland: an ongoing issue / Evelyn Mahon; title: Debates and controversies on abortion in Italy / Marina Calloni; title: Policy-making on abortion: arenas, actors, and arguments in the Netherlands / Joyce Outshoorn; title: Gendering abortion debates: state feminism in Spain / Celia Valiente; title: US abortion debates 1959-1998: the women's movement holds on / Dorothy McBride Stetson; title: Conclusion: comparative abortion politics and the case for state feminism / Dorothy McBride Stetson