Street Politics of Abortion - Speech, Violence, and America''s Culture Wars

The Street Politics of Abortion uses three Supreme Court cases to consider the rise and fall of clinic-front anti-abortion protests in the 1980s and 1990s, and illustrates how these conflicts influenced the contemporary form of reproductive politics and the greater New Christian Right.

About the author

Joshua C. Wilson is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Denver. His work has been discussed in Time Magazine and NPR's The Morning Shift.

Summary

The Street Politics of Abortion uses three Supreme Court cases to consider the rise and fall of clinic-front anti-abortion protests in the 1980s and 1990s, and illustrates how these conflicts influenced the contemporary form of reproductive politics and the greater New Christian Right.

Additional text

"Joshua Wilson shows how the interactions of protesters at abortion clinics and their legal defeats actually helped to institutionalize the anti-abortion movement. This important new work on abortion politics greatly advances our understanding of movement/countermovement dynamics and the power of law."

Product details

• Authors: Wilson Joshua, Joshua Wilson, Joshua C Wilson, Joshua C. Wilson
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.09.2013
• EAN: 9780804785334
• ISBN: 978-0-8047-8533-4
• No. of pages: 260
• Series: The Cultural Lives of Law; The Cultural Lives of Law
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Law > General, dictionaries