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Faye D. Ginsburg
Contested Lives
The Abortion Debate in an American Community, Updated edition
$24.95, £17.95 paperback
978-0-520-21735-5
Available Now
359 pages,
September 1998, Available worldwide
Categories: Anthropology; Gender Studies; American Studies; Public Policy
September 1998, Available worldwide
Categories: Anthropology; Gender Studies; American Studies; Public Policy
"Sensitive and remarkably balanced. . . . Ginsburg's book implicitly challenges the view that the two movements—pro-choice and anti-abortion, or feminist and anti-feminist—are simply ideological opposites, one arising in hostile reaction to the other. It leads us to suspect strongly that . . . the two movements have common roots in anxieties widely shared by women in late-twentieth-century America. . . . Excellent."—Barbara Ehrenreich, The New Republic
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.
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.
Village Voice Outstanding Book; Woodrow Wilson Foundation Rosenhaupt Book Award; Society for Medical Anthropology's Basker Award for Research on Gender and Health; American Sociological Association's Sociology of Culture Book Award
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