Contested Spaces: Abortion Clinics, Women's Shelters and Hospitals: Politicizing the Female Body

ISBN-13: 9781138271623 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 254 str.

Lori A. Brown

Opis

This book examines the relationship between space, defined physically, legally and legislatively, and how these factors directly impact the spaces of abortion. It analyzes how various political entities shape the physical landscapes of inclusion and exclusion to reproductive healthcare access, and questions what architecture's responsibilities are in respect to this spatial conflict. Employing writing, drawing and mapping methodologies, this interdisciplinary project explores restrictions and legislatures which directly influence abortion policy in the US, Mexico and Canada. It questions how these legal rulings produce spatial complexities and why architecture isn't more culturally and spatially engaged with these spaces.

Recenzje

A Yankee Book Peddler US and UK Core Title for 2013 Classified as 'Research Essential' by Baker & Taylor YBP Library Services ’In Contested Spaces: Abortion Clinics, Women's Shelters and Hospitals feminist architectural research makes an important return to explicit women’s issues with a powerful and deeply provocative situated examination of spaces in and around North American abortion clinics. Drawing on the richness of feminist analysis, cultural geography and design activism of the last three decades, Lori A. Brown shows the extent to which these spaces and the various geographies of access arise out of state law as well as activities of anti-abortion protestors who in turn drive new legislation and a vast security apparatus. The book is a tribute to the professionals and activists who continue to make choice a possibility, and an inspiring call to creative practitioners to get involved.’ Katie Lloyd Thomas, Newcastle University, UK

Spis treści

Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Social and Spatial Practices; Chapter 3 Legal Frameworks Understood Spatially; Chapter 4 Case Studies and Spatial Awareness; Chapter 5 Landscapes of Access: United States, Canada and Mexico; Chapter 6 Conclusion;

O autorze

Authored by Brown, Lori A.