Abortion Rights Backlash

The Struggle for Democracy in Europe and the Americas

Alison Brysk (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

288 Seiten

2025
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-780046-1 (ISBN)

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Reproductive rights are fundamental for the life, freedom, health, and safety of over half the world's population. Yet reproductive freedoms are under attack worldwide, even where women have achieved political rights and workplace participation. According to the World Health Organization, about a third of pregnancies end in abortion--but about half of abortions are unsafe, resulting in tens of thousands of deaths each year. Why are abortion rights backsliding, even in developed democracies? Why do some modern societies progress toward reproductive freedoms, while others regress or stagnate? And what can the struggle for reproductive rights teach us about broader movements for human rights and gender justice?

In Abortion Rights Backlash, Alison Brysk shows how threats to reproductive rights stem from a gendered political struggle over declining democracy, national identity, and widening inequality due to globalization. Formerly dominant groups facing social and economic crisis promote reactionary nationalist ideologies built around patriarchy, race, and religion as they seek to control population politics. Brysk demonstrates that this is a global phenomenon, comparing the diverging experiences of the politics of abortion in Ireland, Poland, Argentina, Brazil, and the United States (California vs. Texas). Timely and pathbreaking in its global perspective and feminist analysis, Abortion Rights Backlash transforms our understanding of human rights, the future of democracy, and the struggle for gender justice worldwide.

Alison Brysk is Distinguished Professor in the Department of Political Science and Global Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is a past Fulbright and Woodrow Wilson Fellow and is the author or editor of 18 books on human rights, including her most recent work, The Struggle for Freedom from Fear (Oxford 2018).

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Acknowledgements

Chapter 1: Abortion Rights Backlash

Chapter 2: Contesting Reproduction

Chapter 3: Contrasting Catholic Cases in Europe: Ireland vs. Poland

Chapter 4: Abortion Rights in Latin America: Argentina vs. Brazil

Chapter 5: Abortion Backlash in the United States: America vs. Itself

Chapter 6: Defending Reproductive Rights in a Post-Liberal World

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Erscheint lt. Verlag	24.3.2025
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Vergleichende Politikwissenschaften
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	0-19-780046-7 / 0197800467
ISBN-13	978-0-19-780046-1 / 9780197800461
Zustand	Neuware