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Abortion law and politics today.
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ISBN: 033371556X 0312215746 Year: 1998 Publisher: Hampshire Macmillan Press LTD

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The contributors to this volume discuss the extent to which the contemporary legal framework on abortion matches the needs of women faced with unwanted pregnancy. International comparisons of abortion law, (including the UK, France, the US, Ireland and Poland) accompany contemporary debate. Women's needs are placed at the centre of this collection. The contributors discuss the extent to which the contemporary legal framework on abortion matches the needs of women faced with unwanted pregnancy. The book contains sections on Britain, including an account of the campaign to legalize abortion, written by those centrally involved with that campaign; international comparisons of abortion law, with chapters on France, the United States, Ireland and Poland; and chapters covering contemporary debates, including men's rights in abortion and abortion for foetal abnormality.

Welfare, the family, and reproductive behavior
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ISBN: 0309061253 0309522307 0585037485 9780585037486 9780309061254 0309174015 9780309522304 9780309174015 Year: 1998 Publisher: Washington, D.C. National Academy Press

Women in transition : voices from Lithuania
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ISBN: 0585062390 9780585062396 0791438112 0791438120 1438409885 Year: 1998 Publisher: Albany, N.Y. State University of New York Press

Souls, bodies, spirits : the drive to abolish abortion since 1973
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ISBN: 0313003351 9780313003356 0275960447 9780275960445 9798216016687 Year: 1998 Publisher: Westport, Conn. : London : Praeger, Bloomsbury Publishing,

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A history of the abortion abolition campaign from Roe v Wade to the 1996 election, the author explores the subject historically, sociologically, theologically and politically, arguing for deepened understanding of pro-lifers. The Catholic, social movement and direct action angles are all examined.

Reign of virtue : mobilizing gender in Vichy France
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ISBN: 0226673502 Year: 1998 Volume: *12 Publisher: Chicago, Ill. London The University of Chicago Press


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Towards better reproductive health in Eastern Europe
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ISBN: 0585439370 9780585439372 9633865069 9789633865064 Year: 1998 Publisher: Budapest, Hungary New York Central European University Press

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Documenting the latest statistical data on current problems related to reproductive health issues in Central and Eastern Europe, this text explores the reasons for these problems and recommends action based on the scientific evidence for improving reproductive health. The main issues covered are: declining standards of reproductive health care; rising trends in the incidence of sexually transmitted diseases; low rates of use of modern contraceptives; high rates of induced abortion; high prevalence of infertility; and the needs of adolescents with regard to reproductive health.

In the house of the law : gender and Islamic law in Ottoman Syria and Palestine
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ISBN: 0520925386 0585079382 9780520925380 9780585079387 0520210395 9780520210394 0520210395 Year: 1998 Publisher: Berkeley, CA : University of California Press,

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In an rewarding new study, Tucker explores the way in which Islamic legal thinkers understood Islam as it related to women and gender roles. In seventeenth and eighteenth century Syria and Palestine, Muslim legal thinkers gave considerable attention to women's roles in society, and Tucker shows how fatwas, or legal opinions, greatly influenced these roles. She challenges prevailing views on Islam and gender, revealing Islamic law to have been more fluid and flexible than previously thought. Although the legal system had a consistent patriarchal orientation, it was modulated by sensitivities to the practical needs of women, men, and children. In her comprehensive overview of a field long neglected by scholars, Tucker deepens our understanding of how societies, including our own, construct gender roles.

Contested lives : the abortion debate in an American community
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ISBN: 052092245X 0585054479 9780520922457 9780585054476 0520064925 0520064933 9780520064928 0520064925 9780520064935 0520064933 Year: 1998 Publisher: [Place of publication not identified] University of California Press

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Based on the struggle over a Fargo, North Dakota, abortion clinic, Contested Lives explores one of the central social conflicts of our time. Both wide-ranging and rich in detail, it speaks not simply to the abortion issue but also to the critical role of women's political activism.A new introduction addresses the events of the last decade, which saw the emergence of Operation Rescue and a shift toward more violent, even deadly, forms of anti-abortion protest. Responses to this trend included government legislation, a decline in clinics and doctors offering abortion services, and also the formation of Common Ground, an alliance bringing together activists from both sides to address shared concerns. Ginsburg shows that what may have seemed an ephemeral artifact of "Midwestern feminism" of the 1980s actually foreshadowed unprecedented possibilities for reconciliation in one of the most entrenched conflicts of our times.

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