The Abortion Papers Ireland
ISBN: 9781855940451 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection of 16 essays by Irish feminist scholars and activists explores the politics of abortion in Ireland and considers its social, ethical and political implications.
This collection of 16 essays by Irish feminist scholars and activists explores the politics of abortion in Ireland and considers its social, ethical a...
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81,56 zł |
Safe, Legal, and Unavailable? Abortion Politics in the United States
ISBN: 9781933116891 / Angielski / Miękka / 195 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Supreme Court's 1973 decision in Roe v. Wade legalized abortion. Yet while the medical procedure is legal--and safe--many women across the country do not have the ability to exercise this reproductive right. Melody Rose examines abortion as a social regulatory policy, thoughtfully and thoroughly chronicling the erosion of abortion rights and availability since Roe. Paying respect to all views of this controversial topic in her engaging new book, Rose explores the success of the right-to-life movement in accumulating local and national policies that restrict access to abortion while...
The Supreme Court's 1973 decision in Roe v. Wade legalized abortion. Yet while the medical procedure is legal--and safe--many women across the country...
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280,63 zł |
Contextualizing Family Planning: Truth, Subject, and the Other in the U.S. Government
ISBN: 9780230607989 / Angielski / Twarda / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is a critical analysis of the technologies of identity-formation in governmental family planning policy. Panu argues that in order for contemporary liberalism to govern legitimately, governmental discourses have to create and subsequently alienate certain identities as "other" that is, as the polar opposite of the good, normal citizen. These identities usually center on the poor, the racialised, and the gendered. These arguably discriminatory practices are illustrated through the investigation of the U.S. bio- and anatomo-politics of reproduction in the national family planning...
This book is a critical analysis of the technologies of identity-formation in governmental family planning policy. Panu argues that in order for conte...
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196,76 zł |
The Sterilization Movement and Global Fertility in the Twentieth Century
ISBN: 9780195188585 / Angielski / Twarda Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Many would be surprised to learn that the preferred method of birth control in the United States today is actually surgical sterilization. This book takes an historical look at the sterilization movement in post-World War II America, a revolution in modern contraceptive behavior. Focusing on leaders of the sterilization movement from the 1930's through the turn of the century, this book explores the historic linkages between environment, civil liberties, eugenics, population control, sex education, marriage counseling, and birth control movements in the 20th-century United States....
Many would be surprised to learn that the preferred method of birth control in the United States today is actually surgical sterilization. This book t...
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316,48 zł |
Social Legal & Ethical Perspec
ISBN: 9781843100850 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Involving a third person in a child's conception raises many difficult issues and dilemmas. This book provides a comprehensive guide to the place of third party assisted conception within health care provision, drawing on local ethical and religious standpoints as well as political and economic factors. Eric Blyth and Ruth Landau have brought together authors from a broad range of professional backgrounds to consider the social, legal and ethical aspects of third party assisted conception in thirteen countries dispersed through North and South America, Africa, Europe, Asia and Australasia....
Involving a third person in a child's conception raises many difficult issues and dilemmas. This book provides a comprehensive guide to the place of t...
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333,65 zł |
Pro-Life Activists in America: Meaning, Motivation, and Direct Action
ISBN: 9780521660440 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book offers a oral history of pro-life direct activism in America from the late 1970s through the early 1990s. Through the stories of leaders and followers, men and women, Catholics and evangelicals, Carol Maxwell explores the complex beliefs and desires that gave rise to this activism, sustained, and eventually undid it. She offers a unique view of the minds of individual protestors and an important account of the direct action movement--as its initial commitment to Ghandian non-violence was broken down by the lethal acts that accompanied its end.
This book offers a oral history of pro-life direct activism in America from the late 1970s through the early 1990s. Through the stories of leaders and...
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467,73 zł |
How Can the Dream Survive If We Murder the Children?: Abortion Is Not a Civil Right!
ISBN: 9781434361509 / Angielski / Miękka / 108 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How Can The Dream Survive If We Murder The Children? This compelling question impacts nations and generations of human beings, many of whom have experienced physical, emotional and spiritual oppression spanning the course of many lifetimes. How Can The Dream Survive brings hope, light and life to those who have pondered the issue of abortion, and whose questions have yet to be answered: Is abortion a civil right? Is abortion good for women? What's so bad about genocide? What would Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. say about abortion? Who are the survivors? What about life, liberty and justice for...
How Can The Dream Survive If We Murder The Children? This compelling question impacts nations and generations of human beings, many of whom have exper...
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61,57 zł |
The Abortion Debate in the United States and Canada: A Source Book
ISBN: 9780824052607 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First published in 1991. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
First published in 1991. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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545,69 zł |
The Pivot of Civilization
ISBN: 9781605976938 / Angielski / Miękka / 148 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. ...Birth control, Mrs. Sanger claims, and claims rightly, to be a question of fundamental importance at the present time. I do not know how far one is justified in calling it the pivot or the corner-stone of a progressive civilization. These terms involve a criticism of metaphors that may take us far away from the question in hand. Birth Control is no new thing in human experience, and it has been practised in societies of the most various types and fortunes. But there can be little doubt that The Pivot 8 ot of Civilization at the present time it is a test issue between two widely different...
...Birth control, Mrs. Sanger claims, and claims rightly, to be a question of fundamental importance at the present time. I do not know how far one is...
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77,09 zł |
The Racket: How Abortion Became Legal in Australia
ISBN: 9780522855784 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Abortion was one of Australia's most lucrative and longest-lasting criminal rackets. This book describes the rise and fall of an extraordinary web of influence, which culminated in the landmark ruling that made abortion legal, and a public inquiry that humiliated a powerful government and a glamorous police force.
Abortion was one of Australia's most lucrative and longest-lasting criminal rackets. This book describes the rise and fall of an extraordinary web of ...
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120,78 zł |
The Adolescent Dilemma: International Perspectives on the Family Planning Rights of Minors
ISBN: 9780275920807 / Angielski / Twarda / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This reference book provides information on the family planning rights of minors in eleven countries in North America and Western Europe. "The Adolescent Dilemma" covers a minor's legal rights to abortion services and birth control. In addition, this comprehensive resource discusses sex education, sexual behavior, and the nature and extent of contraceptive practices. The introduction presents a framework for discussing minors' rights and the conclusion draws on the information provided in the book to take a brief, comparative look at the topic. Both a reference resource on family planning... This reference book provides information on the family planning rights of minors in eleven countries in North America and Western Europe. "The Adol... |
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580,26 zł |
Women, Society, the State, and Abortion: A Structuralist Analysis
ISBN: 9780275927448 / Angielski / Twarda / 161 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Women, Society, the State, and Abortion" takes an unbiased look at the abortion issue, examining it from a cross-disciplinary perspective comprising history, politics, law, biology, philosophy, theology, and medicine. Through application of a structuralist method of analysis, the author looks beneath the surface to determine what the real abortion controversy is all about. This insightful volume will be of interest to public officials and administrators at the federal, state, and local levels, as well as to health, education, and social service personnel who work in and around the... "Women, Society, the State, and Abortion" takes an unbiased look at the abortion issue, examining it from a cross-disciplinary perspective comprisi... |
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519,84 zł |
The Silent Subject: Reflections on the Unborn in American Culture
ISBN: 9780275950323 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When, God willing, the abortion controversy is behind us, partisans of the pro-life and pro-choice positions are going to have to live together in this society. That is why, sloganeering and passionate polemics are inevitable, civil conversation is essential. And that is why "The Silent Subject" is such a gift to all of us at this point in the controversy. (From the foreword by Richard John Neuhaus) The essays in this work constitute a sensitive, public argument for a reconstruction of the confused--yet dominant--popular attitudes toward nascent human life and its value. Unlike most... When, God willing, the abortion controversy is behind us, partisans of the pro-life and pro-choice positions are going to have to live together in ... |
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580,26 zł |
Abortion: Statutes, Policies, and Public Attitudes the World Over
ISBN: 9780275960605 / Angielski / Twarda / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Abortion is one of the most compelling public policy issues facing government and the public in the United States today. Most societies have enacted laws and statutes regarding abortion, and most societies have strong feelings regarding birth control and abortion. But the legal statutes and attitudes follow markedly different approaches. Simon examines how this issue is being faced in the United States, Canada, a sample of Western and Eastern European countries, Middle Eastern, African, and Latin American societies, and, among Asian countries, Japan, China, and India, along with Australia.... Abortion is one of the most compelling public policy issues facing government and the public in the United States today. Most societies have enacte... |
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International Handbook on Abortion
ISBN: 9780313234637 / Angielski / Twarda / 532 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This handbook discusses 33 nations in terms of abortion's legal status, development of the policy, availability of contraception and abortion services, abortion rates, fertility trends, and the demographic/socioeconomic profiles of affected women. The amount of data consolidated in one volume is prodigious, providing information not readily available in any other single source. . . . In terms of policies and data, the book is excellent. "Library Journal" This unique work assembles in a single volume data from several continents on the general pattern of legal activity pertaining to... This handbook discusses 33 nations in terms of abortion's legal status, development of the policy, availability of contraception and abortion servi... |
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507,76 zł |
Abortion: A Case Study in Law and Morals
ISBN: 9780313239533 / Angielski / Twarda / 226 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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399,01 zł |
From Crime to Choice: The Transformation of Abortion in America
ISBN: 9780313249297 / Angielski / Twarda / 290 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work provides the first broadly based documentation and analysis of the evolution of abortion from criminal act to personal choice. The author places the abortion question in the wider context of change in the social realm and in law, politics, economics, and medical practice. Dealing with the confrontation between pro-life and pro-choice groups, Davis analyzes feminist interpretations of abortion reform and discusses efforts to create a human-centered procedure that will benefit women themselves rather than doctors or clinic managers. Other important issues covered include the... This work provides the first broadly based documentation and analysis of the evolution of abortion from criminal act to personal choice. The author... |
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580,26 zł |
Fertility Control: New Techniques, New Policy Issues
ISBN: 9780313276408 / Angielski / Twarda / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An exploration of the policy dilemmas with new fertility control techniques, this volume offers the first comprehensive treatment of the subject's technical, legal, and political dimensions. Robert H. Blank provides a detailed discussion of current state laws and court decisions, and extensive analysis of new fertility control techniques and their social and policy implications. Blank describes the political, institutional, and constitutional context of fertility control in the United States, examining the relationship between social structures and rapid advances in biomedical... An exploration of the policy dilemmas with new fertility control techniques, this volume offers the first comprehensive treatment of the subject's ... |
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459,43 zł |
Interdisciplinary Views on Abortion: Essays from Philosophical, Sociological, Anthropological, Political, Health and Other Perspectives
ISBN: 9780786434947 / Angielski / Miękka / 223 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines issues surrounding abortion and abortion practices in the United States through the perspectives of multiple disciplines, including sociology, anthropology, philosophy, community health, theology, and political science. The essays parallel the interdisciplinary nature of feminist and women s studies, situating abortion within a wider understanding of the impact of reproduction on women s lives and their health. The contributing authors provide an accessible summary of the numerous topics surrounding abortion, and the essays reflect both original research and scholarly...
This book examines issues surrounding abortion and abortion practices in the United States through the perspectives of multiple disciplines, including...
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187,25 zł |
Fit to Be Tied: Sterilization and Reproductive Rights in America, 1950-1980
ISBN: 9780813545271 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The 1960s revolutionized American contraceptive practice. Diaphragms, jellies, and condoms with high failure rates gave way to newer choices of the Pill, IUD, and sterilization. Fit to Be Tied provides a history of sterilization and what would prove to become, at once, socially divisive and a popular form of birth control.
During the first half of the twentieth century, sterilization (tubal ligation and vasectomy) was a tool of eugenics. Individuals who endorsed crude notions of biological determinism sought to control the reproductive decisions of women they considered "unfit" by... The 1960s revolutionized American contraceptive practice. Diaphragms, jellies, and condoms with high failure rates gave way to newer choices of the Pi...
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696,39 zł |